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Science on the 4th of January in history

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Date	Type	Text
04 Jan 1746 Benjamin Rush	science	birth Benjamin Rush Benjamin Rush, Founding Father of the United States, chemist and physician (died 1813)	0
04 Jan 1752 Gabriel Cramer	science	death Gabriel Cramer Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (born 1704)	0
04 Jan 1803 William Symington	science	William Symington (transport) William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas, the "first practical steamboat", in Scotland.	0
04 Jan 1809 Louis Braille	science	birth Louis Braille Louis Braille (died 1852), inventor.	0
04 Jan 1883 Johanna Westerdijk	science	birth Johanna Westerdijk Johanna Westerdijk (died 1961), Dutch plant pathologist	0
04 Jan 1885 appendectomy	science	appendectomy (medicine) The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.	0
04 Jan 1899 Henry Alleyne Nicholson	science	death Henry Alleyne Nicholson Henry Alleyne Nicholson (born 1844), British palaeontologist and zoologist.	0
04 Jan 1905 Paul Henry	science	death Paul Henry Paul Henry (born 1848), astronomer	0
04 Jan 1928 Henry T. Lynch	science	birth Henry T. Lynch Henry T. Lynch, American cancer geneticist.	0
04 Jan 1958 Sputnik 1	science	Sputnik 1 (astronomy and space ) Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit and burns up (launched on October 4, 1957).	0
04 Jan 1961 Erwin Schrödinger	science	death Erwin Schrödinger Erwin Schrödinger (born 1887), Austrian physicist.	0
04 Jan 1963 Luna	science	Luna (astronomy and space ) Soviet Luna reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach the moon.	0
04 Jan 1963 May-Britt Moser	science	birth May-Britt Moser May-Britt Moser, Norwegian neuroscientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.	0
04 Jan 1970 1970 Tonghai earthquake	science	1970 Tonghai earthquake (earth sciences) 1970 Tonghai earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 Richter magnitude scale occurs in Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, on the Red River fault.	0
04 Jan 1990 Doc Edgerton	science	death Doc Edgerton Prof. Doc Edgerton, (b. 1903), American electrical engineer.	0
04 Jan 2004 Mars Exploration Rover	science	Mars Exploration Rover (space exploration) NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission Spirit (MER-A), the first of two Mars rovers, lands successfully on Mars in the crater Gusev (Columbia Memorial Station) at 04:35 SCET.	0

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