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05 Mar 1512
Gerardus Mercator |
birth Gerardus Mercator Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (died 1594) |
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05 Mar 1574
William Oughtred |
birth William Oughtred William Oughtred, English mathematician, inventor of the slide rule (died 1660) |
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05 Mar 1616
Copernicus |
Copernicus (astronomy) Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543) is forbidden by the Congregation of the Index for reading "until corrected" (this is done in 1620: nine sentences, in which the heliocentric system is represented as certain, have to be either omitted or changed). |
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05 Mar 1658
Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac |
birth Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (died 1730) |
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05 Mar 1748
Jonas C. Dryander |
birth Jonas C. Dryander Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (died 1810) |
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05 Mar 1763
William Smellie |
death William Smellie William Smellie, Scottish obstetrician (born 1697) |
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05 Mar 1815
Franz Mesmer |
death Franz Mesmer Franz Mesmer, German physician (born 1734) |
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05 Mar 1830
Étienne-Jules Marey |
birth Étienne-Jules Marey Étienne-Jules Marey (died 1904), physiologist. |
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05 Mar 1830
Charles Wyville Thompson |
birth Charles Wyville Thompson Charles Wyville Thompson (died 1882), marine biologist. |
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05 Mar 1914
He Zehui |
birth He Zehui He Zehui (died 2011), Chinese nuclear physicist. |
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05 Mar 1926
Clément Ader |
death Clément Ader Clément Ader (born 1841), engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer. |
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05 Mar 1930
sexual reassignment |
sexual reassignment (medicine) Danish painter Einar Wegener begins to undergo sexual reassignment surgery in Germany and takes the name Lili Elbe. |
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05 Mar 1934
Daniel Kahneman |
birth Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman, psychologist, Israeli-American winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. |
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05 Mar 1938
Lynn Margulis |
birth Lynn Margulis Lynn Margulis, American biologist (d. 2011) |
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05 Mar 1943
Gloster Meteor |
Gloster Meteor (technology) The Gloster Meteor, the first operational military jet aircraft for the Allies of World War II, has its first test flight, in England. |
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05 Mar 1944
Ernst Cohen |
death Ernst Cohen Ernst Cohen (born 1869), Dutch Jewish chemist (in Auschwitz concentration camp). |
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05 Mar 1950
Henry Marsh |
birth Henry Marsh Henry Marsh, English neurosurgeon. |
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05 Mar 1952
Sir Charles Sherrington |
death Sir Charles Sherrington Sir Charles Sherrington (born 1857), English neurophysiologist & bacteriologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932. |
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05 Mar 1958
Explorer 2 |
Explorer 2 (astronomy and space ) Explorer 2 fails to reach orbit. |
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05 Mar 1960
Alister Hardy |
Alister Hardy (biology) British marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy announces his aquatic ape hypothesis, theorising that swimming and diving for food exerted a strong evolutionary effect partly responsible for the divergence in the common descent of humans and other great apes. |
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05 Mar 1975
Hackers |
Hackers (computer science) Hackers in Silicon Valley hold the first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club. |
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05 Mar 1981
ZX81 |
ZX81 (computer science) The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research, going on to sell over 1.5 million units worldwide. |
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05 Mar 1998
NASA |
NASA (astronomy and space ) NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket-fuelling station. |
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