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09 Mar 1500
Pedro Álvares Cabral |
Pedro Álvares Cabral (exploration) April 22 – Expedition of Pedro Álvares Cabral, with thirteen caravels, sails from Lisbon to Brazil, which he claims for Portugal. |
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09 Mar 1564
David Fabricius |
birth David Fabricius David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (died 1617). |
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09 Mar 1758
Franz Joseph Gall |
birth Franz Joseph Gall Franz Joseph Gall, German-born neuroanatomist (died 1828) |
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09 Mar 1847
Mary Anning |
death Mary Anning Mary Anning, English paleontologist (born 1799) |
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09 Mar 1851
Hans Christian Ørsted |
death Hans Christian Ørsted Hans Christian Ørsted (born 1777), physicist. |
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09 Mar 1870
Maria Ann Smith |
death Maria Ann Smith 'Granny' Maria Ann Smith (born 1799), English-born Australian horticulturalist. |
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09 Mar 1888
Robert Gordon Latham |
death Robert Gordon Latham Robert Gordon Latham (born 1812), ethnologist and philologist. |
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09 Mar 1900
Howard Aiken |
birth Howard Aiken Howard Aiken (died 1973), computing pioneer. |
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09 Mar 1923
Walter Kohn |
birth Walter Kohn Walter Kohn, Viennese-born physicist. |
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09 Mar 1933
David Weatherall |
birth David Weatherall David Weatherall, English molecular geneticist. |
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09 Mar 1934
Yuri Gagarin |
birth Yuri Gagarin Yuri Gagarin (died 1968), Russian cosmonaut, the first man in space. |
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09 Mar 1940
Robert Gunther |
death Robert Gunther Robert Gunther (born 1869), English historian of science. |
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09 Mar 1948
László Lovász |
birth László Lovász László Lovász, Hungarian computer scientist. |
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09 Mar 1978
Gaston Julia |
death Gaston Julia Gaston Julia (b. 1893), French mathematician. |
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09 Mar 1981
Max Delbrück |
death Max Delbrück Max Delbrück (b. 1906), German biologist. |
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09 Mar 1992
ViolaWWW |
ViolaWWW (computer science) ViolaWWW, the first popular Web browser, created by Pei-Yuan Wei in the United States, is publicly released for Unix. |
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