Continuing with our date related trivia themes, February 18th (yesterday) is an interesting day for Arts & Sciences in history.
On the 18th of February in 1564, Michelangelo Buonarotti, the famed Italian painter, sculptor and architect, died. On this same date in 1885, Samuel L. Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain, published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, coming on the heels of his successful book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Now those are the art factoids.
In science, however, February 18th has a discovery – that also has a somewhat unique fact – with which it is associated. The discovery, made in 1930, was subsequently overturned and determined to be incorrect in 2006.
What was the discovery, who discovered it and what happened to it?