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The Royal Society forms in London, England. This club or group was formed in 1660. Their motto is "Take Nobody's Word For It."
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Robert Hooke discovered small compartments or pores in a cork from a bottle that he was examining. He named them cells. The word cell comes from the Latin word, Cella, meaning small rooms.
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Dutch states-general forbids importation of French wine.
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Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered single celled organisms which are now known to us as unicellular organisms. A letter was sent to the Royal Society in 1673. Anthonie sent that message because he was a part of that group. They publicized the message because in it was the scientific notification of the discovery of unicellular organisms.
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On June 15th, 1836 Arkansas becomes the 25th state in the United States of America. They started out as the 13th slave state in the US and had a population around 60,000. They then struggled to survive as a state when the Panic of 1837 happened.
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The Panic of 1837 was a major recession in America's history.
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Matthias Jakob Schleiden was a professor and botanist and found out that parts of plant are composed from cells,
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In Microscopic Investigations on the Accordance in the Structure and Growth of Plants and Animals, Schwann writes about cells. He says "all living things are composed of cells."
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Lincoln University, a black campus, was chartered in April 1854.
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In the early 1850's, a scientist by the name of Robert Remak made a theory about cells coming from existing cells. Rudolf Virchow didn't believe it. However, in 1858, when Virchow realized that Remak might be right, Virchow publicized Remak's work as his own. Then Virchow discovered that all cells come from existing cells.
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Jim Margie, a Philadelphia bowler, scored a perfect 900.
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Dr. Charles Drew was recruited to help with the project "Blood For Britain." This was for the British and American involvment in WW II. After some research, Dr. Drew found away to bank blood.
