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Science on the 17th of February in history

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Date	Type	Text
17 Feb 1600 Giordano Bruno	science	Giordano Bruno (astronomy) Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy in Rome.	0
17 Feb 1680 Jan Swammerdam	science	death Jan Swammerdam Jan Swammerdam, Dutch naturalist, founder of both comparative anatomy and entomology (born 1637)	0
17 Feb 1715 Antoine Galland	science	death Antoine Galland Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (born 1646)	0
17 Feb 1723 Tobias Mayer	science	birth Tobias Mayer Tobias Mayer, German cartographer, astronomer and physicist (died 1762)	0
17 Feb 1740 Horace-Bénédict de Saussure	science	birth Horace-Bénédict de Saussure Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, pioneer of Alpine studies (died 1799)	0
17 Feb 1781 Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec	science	birth Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician, inventor of the stethoscope (died 1826)	0
17 Feb 1792 Karl Ernst von Baer	science	birth Karl Ernst von Baer Karl Ernst von Baer, Estonian naturalist (died 1876)	0
17 Feb 1805 Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti	science	death Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Viennese herpetologist (born 1735)	0
17 Feb 1863 International Committee of the Red Cross	science	International Committee of the Red Cross (medicine) First meeting of what will become the International Committee of the Red Cross is held in Geneva, Switzerland, following the lead of humanitarian Henry Dunant.	0
17 Feb 1864 American Civil War	science	American Civil War (technology) In the American Civil War, the tiny Confederate hand-propelled submarine H. L. Hunley sinks the USS Housatonic using a spar torpedo in Charleston Harbor, becoming the first submarine to sink an enemy ship (although the submarine and her crew of eight are also lost).	0
17 Feb 1867 Suez Canal	science	Suez Canal (technology) The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.	0
17 Feb 1874 Adolphe Quetelet	science	death Adolphe Quetelet Adolphe Quetelet (born 1796), mathematician and astronomer	0
17 Feb 1880 Reginald Farrer	science	birth Reginald Farrer Reginald Farrer (died 1920), English botanist.	0
17 Feb 1888 Otto Stern	science	birth Otto Stern Otto Stern (died 1969), physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1943.	0
17 Feb 2005 Richard Leakey	science	Richard Leakey (paleontology) Two Ethiopian fossil skulls originally found in 1967 by Richard Leakey, Omo I and Omo II, are re-dated at 195,000 years old, making them the oldest Homo sapiens remains known. The results are published in Nature.	0

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