2014 Event Tobacco company R. J. Reynolds must pay over $23 billion in resolution of a lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who died from lung cancer at age 36; the suit accused the company of hiding the health risks and habit-forming nature of cigarettes 1992 Event Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble 1987 Event Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks 1984 Event Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in Nature magazine 1971 Event Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Nature Center opens 1971 Death Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologist (Nature and Destiny of Man), dies at 78 1948 Event "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time 1933 Birthday Earl of Cranbrook, CEO, Nature Conservancy Council 1920 Event H Shapley and H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae 1910 Death William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies 1907 Birthday Roy K Marshall, Glen Carbon, Illinois, TV scientist, Nature of Things 1905 Event Operations begin uniting conservatory of Nature monument Amsterdam 1892 Birthday Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S., theologian, Nature and Destiny of Man 1892 Event Sierra Club forms by John Muir for conservation of nature 1891 Birthday Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor, Nature of Music 1888 Death James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies 1876 Birthday Hans Bethge, born in Dessau, Germany, writer, short stories, essays, plays, poetry on love, nature, works include, 'Agyptische Reise' 'Egyptian Journey' 1868 Birthday Mary Austin, Illinois, feminist/nature writer, Land of Little Rain 1846 Death Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian nature investigator/diplomat, dies at 73 1837 Birthday John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast, Burroughs Medal namesake 1836 Birthday Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer, Helium, founder, Nature magazine 1831 Birthday J. W. Richard Dedekind, Germany mathematician, Nature and Meaning of Numbers 1829 Death Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French nature investigator, dies at about 85 1824 Birthday William Higgins, discoverer, nature of spiral nebulae 1803 Event William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature" 1799 Death John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English physician/nature investigator, dies at 68 1773 Birthday Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat 1711 Birthday David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher, Treatise of Human Nature 1702 Death Georg E Rumphius, German nature explorer, dies 1680 Death Jan Swammerdam, Dutch entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 41 1680 Death John Swammerdam, anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 43 1637 Birthday John Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist/entomologist, Bible of Nature
