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Science on the 4th of March in history

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Date	Type	Text
04 Mar 1663 Prince Edward Islands	science	Prince Edward Islands (exploration) The Prince Edward Islands in the sub-antarctic Indian Ocean are discovered by Barent Barentszoon Lam of the Dutch ship Maerseveen and named Dina (Prince Edward) and Maerseveen (Marion).	0
04 Mar 1675 John Flamsteed	science	John Flamsteed (astronomy) John Flamsteed appointed as "astronomical observator", in effect, the first Astronomer Royal of England.	0
04 Mar 1754 Benjamin Waterhouse	science	birth Benjamin Waterhouse Benjamin Waterhouse, American physician (died 1846)	0
04 Mar 1769 French	science	French (astronomy) French astronomer Charles Messier first records the Orion Nebula (Messier 42).	0
04 Mar 1854 Napier Shaw	science	birth Napier Shaw Napier Shaw (died 1945), English meteorologist.	0
04 Mar 1859 Alexander Stepanovich Popov	science	birth Alexander Stepanovich Popov Alexander Stepanovich Popov (died 1906), Russian physicist.	0
04 Mar 1878 Peter D. Ouspensky	science	birth Peter D. Ouspensky Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (died 1947)	0
04 Mar 1907 Rosalind Pitt-Rivers	science	birth Rosalind Pitt-Rivers Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, née Henley (died 1990), English biochemist.	0
04 Mar 1916 Hans Eysenck	science	birth Hans Eysenck Hans Eysenck (died 1997), German-born psychologist.	0
04 Mar 1923 Patrick Moore	science	birth Patrick Moore Patrick Moore (died 2012), English astronomer.	0
04 Mar 1938 American	science	American (medicine) American biogerontologist Raymond Pearl demonstrates the negative health effects of tobacco smoking.	0
04 Mar 1985 Food and Drug Administration	science	Food and Drug Administration (medicine) The United States Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since this date for testing all U.S. blood donations.	0
04 Mar 1993 Izaak Kolthoff	science	death Izaak Kolthoff Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch 'father of analytical chemistry' (b. 1894)	0
04 Mar 1997 Bill Clinton	science	Bill Clinton (biology) United States President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning	0
04 Mar 1997 Robert H. Dicke	science	death Robert H. Dicke Robert H. Dicke (b. 1916), American physicist.	0
04 Mar 2000 Sony Computer Entertainment	science	Sony Computer Entertainment (computer science) Sony Computer Entertainment release the PlayStation 2 sixth generation home video game console in Japan.	0
04 Mar 2004 NASA	science	NASA (space exploration) NASA's Spirit finds evidence of past contact with water in volcanic rocks on Mars.	0

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