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Science on the 6th of March in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
06 Mar 1521 Ferdinand Magellan	science	Ferdinand Magellan (exploration) Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam in the Mariana Islands.	0
06 Mar 1558 Luca Gaurico	science	death Luca Gaurico Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (born 1476)	0
06 Mar 1558 Fray	science	death Fray Fray Marcos de Niza, Savoyard Franciscan explorer (born c. 1495)	0
06 Mar 1665 England	science	England (publications) The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication in England under the editorship of Henry Oldenburg, the first scientific journal in English.	0
06 Mar 1716 Pehr Kalm	science	birth Pehr Kalm Pehr Kalm, Swedish botanist and explorer (died 1779)	0
06 Mar 1767 Davies Giddy	science	birth Davies Giddy Davies Giddy, English promoter of science (died 1839)	0
06 Mar 1778 Pacific Northwest	science	Pacific Northwest (earth sciences and e) October 24 – Captain Cook explores and maps the Pacific Northwest coast of North America from Cape Foulweather (Oregon) to the Bering Strait.	0
06 Mar 1787 Joseph von Fraunhofer	science	birth Joseph von Fraunhofer Joseph von Fraunhofer (died 1826), Bavarian physicist.	0
06 Mar 1841 Alfred Cornu	science	birth Alfred Cornu Alfred Cornu (died 1902), physicist.	0
06 Mar 1866 William Whewell	science	death William Whewell William Whewell (born 1794), scientist, philosopher, and historian of science	0
06 Mar 1899 Felix Hoffmann	science	Felix Hoffmann (medicine) Felix Hoffmann patents Aspirin and Bayer registers its name as a trademark.	0
06 Mar 1900 Gottlieb Daimler	science	death Gottlieb Daimler Gottlieb Daimler (born 1834), German engineer, automotive pioneer.	0
06 Mar 1901 Rex Wailes	science	birth Rex Wailes Rex Wailes (died 1986), English engineer and historian of technology.	0
06 Mar 1902 Moritz Kaposi	science	death Moritz Kaposi Moritz Kaposi (born 1837), dermatologist.	0
06 Mar 1929 David Dunbar Buick	science	death David Dunbar Buick David Dunbar Buick (born 1854), Scottish American automobile pioneer.	0
06 Mar 1939 Dorothea Pertz	science	death Dorothea Pertz Dorothea Pertz (born 1859), English botanist.	0
06 Mar 1973 Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts	science	Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (institutions) The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, founded as the Montenegrin Society for Science and Arts (Crnogorsko društvo za nauku i umjetnost), elects its first members.	0
06 Mar 2005 Hans Bethe	science	death Hans Bethe Hans Bethe (b. 1906), Nobelaureate in Physics (1967) for his discoveries concerning the energy production mechanism in stars.	0

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