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13 Feb 1672
Étienne François Geoffroy |
birth Étienne François Geoffroy Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (died 1731) |
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13 Feb 1728
John Hunter |
birth John Hunter John Hunter, Scottish surgeon, pathologist and comparative anatomist (died 1793) |
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13 Feb 1743
Joseph Banks |
birth Joseph Banks Joseph Banks, English botanist (died 1820) |
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13 Feb 1787
Ruđer Bošković |
death Ruđer Bošković Ruđer Bošković, Ragusan physicist, mathematician and astronomer (born 1711) |
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13 Feb 1805
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet |
birth Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, mathematician (died 1859) |
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13 Feb 1858
Richard Francis Burton |
Richard Francis Burton (exploration) Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke become the first Europeans to discover Lake Tanganyika. |
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13 Feb 1880
Thomas Edison |
Thomas Edison (physics) Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect. |
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13 Feb 1894
Auguste and Louis Lumière |
Auguste and Louis Lumière (technology) Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector. |
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13 Feb 1910
William Bradford Shockley |
birth William Bradford Shockley William Bradford Shockley (died 1989), physicist. |
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13 Feb 1923
Chuck Yeager |
birth Chuck Yeager Chuck Yeager, American pilot. |
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13 Feb 1953
Christine Jorgenson |
Christine Jorgenson (medicine and human s) Christine Jorgenson, the first widely known American transsexual, returns to New York after successful sexual reassignment surgery in Denmark. |
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13 Feb 1993
Asteroid |
Asteroid (astronomy and space ) Asteroid 7253 Nara is discovered by Fumiaki Uto. |
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13 Feb 1997
Hubble Space Telescope |
Hubble Space Telescope (astronomy and space ) Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery. |
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