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Science on the 2nd of March in history

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Date	Type	Text
02 Mar 1729 Francesco Bianchini	science	death Francesco Bianchini Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (born 1662)	0
02 Mar 1811 Hugh Edwin Strickland	science	birth Hugh Edwin Strickland Hugh Edwin Strickland, English geologist and ornithologist (died 1853)	0
02 Mar 1830 Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring	science	death Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (born 1755), physician, anatomist, paleontologist and inventor.	0
02 Mar 1840 Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers	science	death Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (born 1758), astronomer.	0
02 Mar 1852 fire engine	science	fire engine (technology) The first American experimental steam fire engine is tested.	0
02 Mar 1853 Ambrosius Hubrecht	science	birth Ambrosius Hubrecht Ambrosius Hubrecht (died 1915), Dutch zoologist.	0
02 Mar 1944 Ida Maclean	science	death Ida Maclean Ida Maclean (born 1877), English biochemist.	0
02 Mar 1950 James W. Pennebaker	science	birth James W. Pennebaker James W. Pennebaker, American social psychologist.	0
02 Mar 1972 Pioneer 10	science	Pioneer 10 (astronomy and space ) Launch of Pioneer 10 spacecraft.	0
02 Mar 1978 Vladimír Remek	science	Vladimír Remek (astronomy and space ) Vladimír Remek becomes the first Czechoslovak in space and the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States, onboard Soyuz 28.	0
02 Mar 1998 Galileo space probe	science	Galileo space probe (astronomy and space ) Data sent from the Galileo space probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.	0

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