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Science on the 7th of February in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
07 Feb 1812 New Madrid Earthquake	science	New Madrid Earthquake (geophysics) The last New Madrid Earthquake strikes New Madrid, Missouri, with an estimated moment magnitude of over 8.	0
07 Feb 1824 William Huggins	science	birth William Huggins William Huggins (died 1910), astronomer.	0
07 Feb 1834 Dmitri Mendeleev	science	birth Dmitri Mendeleev Dmitri Mendeleev (died 1907), chemist.	0
07 Feb 1844 Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko	science	birth Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko (died 1873), Russian naturalist.	0
07 Feb 1858 Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate	science	birth Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate (died 1931), Dutch anthropologist.	0
07 Feb 1862 Prosper Ménière	science	death Prosper Ménière Prosper Ménière (born 1799), French physician who first described the symptoms of Ménière's disease	0
07 Feb 1868 Aleen Cust	science	birth Aleen Cust Aleen Cust (died 1937), veterinary surgeon.	0
07 Feb 1870 Alfred Adler	science	birth Alfred Adler Alfred Adler (died 1937), Austrian psychotherapist.	0
07 Feb 1877 G. H. Hardy	science	birth G. H. Hardy G. H. Hardy (died 1947), English mathematician.	0
07 Feb 1920 An Wang	science	birth An Wang An Wang, Chinese-born computer engineer (died 1990).	0
07 Feb 1979 Pluto	science	Pluto (astronomy and space ) Pluto enters a 20-year period inside the orbit of Neptune for the first time in 230 years.	0
07 Feb 1980 Secondo Campini	science	death Secondo Campini Secondo Campini (b 1904), Italian jet engine pioneer.	0
07 Feb 1984 Astronauts	science	Astronauts (astronomy and space ) Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.	0
07 Feb 2005 NASA	science	NASA (space exploration) NASA announce budget plans – in the announcement, they state that a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope will not take place, and that a robotic mission to deorbit the telescope with a safe descent into an ocean will take place. The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (Jimo) mission is also cancelled.	0
07 Feb 2005 National Academy of Sciences	science	National Academy of Sciences (appointments) The National Academy of Sciences elects Ralph Cicerone as its next president, to begin his 6-year term on July 1. He takes over from Bruce Alberts.	0

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