October 8
Posted in White History on Oct 8th, 2011
1978 Australian motorboat racer Ken Warby set the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia. 1918 Danish chemist Jens Christian Skou was born in Lemvig, Denmark. In 1997 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of Na+,K+-ATPase (also known as the sodium-potassium pump), an enzyme located in the [...]