On January 8, 1851, French Physicist Leon Foucault invented a pendulum device to prove the Earth’s rotation. It had long been believed that the Earth rotated, but Focault discovered that he could demonstrate this with a simple experiment using a tall pendulum with a heavy weight. He...
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for...
World Contact Day was first declared on March 1953 by an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau, as a day on which all IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space. The IFSB voted to hold such a day in 1953, theorising that if both telepathy and alien...
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is dedicated to increasing understanding and stimulating discussion about digital accessibility and inclusion. The purpose of the day is to get people talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with...
May 20 is World Metrology Day, commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in 1875. World Metrology Day celebrates the signature by representatives of seventeen nations of the Metre Convention on 20 May 1875. The Convention set the framework for global collaboration...
Asteroid Day is a global movement to protect our earth from asteroids. Asteroid Day aims to raise awareness of the threats posed by space rocks and eventually help boost the rate of near-Earth asteroid discovery by a factor of 100.
Asteroid Day is held on June 30, the anniversary of the 1908...