June 17, 1985
The Discovery Channel started broadcasting.
https://www.discovery.com/
Today is
Global Garbage Man Day
The Global Garbage Man Day on June 17 honors the garbage man and woman
of the world.
June 17, 1996
Thomas Kuhn, the American physicist and philosopher of
science, died at age 73.
“What man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conception experience has taught him to see.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn
- Thomas S. Kuhn
If you have heard of the popular term "paradigm shifts"（典范转移）, Kuhn invented it in his book The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions.
* A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the
basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline.
For example, the movement of
scientific theory from the Ptolemaic system (the earth at the center of the
universe) to the Copernican system (the sun at the center of the universe) was
a famous paradigm shift.