november 8 in history: what happened
The Bodleian Library was founded in Oxford in 1602
The Bodleian Library was founded in Oxford in 1602.
In 1798, English Captain John Fearne discovered the coral island of Nauru in the Pacific Ocean.
On this day, but in 1895, in the process of experiments with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered radiation, which he called X-rays. Subsequently, in honor of the scientist, it was called X-ray.
And in 1961, the first issue of the KVN program (“Club of the Fun and Resourceful”) was broadcast.
On November 8, English astronomer, mathematician and demographer Edmund Halley (1656); Irish writer, author of the novel Dracula Bram Stoker (1847); Russian and Soviet historian, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Eugene Tarle (1874); Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, developer of one of the personality tests Herman Rorschach (1884).
