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10 Mar 1535
Fray Tomás de Berlanga |
Fray Tomás de Berlanga (exploration) Fray Tomás de Berlanga discovers the Galapagos Islands when blown off course en route to Peru. |
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10 Mar 1585
Rembert Dodoens |
death Rembert Dodoens Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (born 1517) |
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10 Mar 1588
Theodor Zwinger |
death Theodor Zwinger Theodor Zwinger the elder, Swiss philosopher, physician and encyclopedist (born 1533) |
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10 Mar 1622
Johann Rahn |
birth Johann Rahn Johann Rahn, Swiss mathematician (died 1676) |
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10 Mar 1628
Marcello Malpighi |
birth Marcello Malpighi Marcello Malpighi, Italian physiologist (died 1694) |
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10 Mar 1670
Johann Rudolf Glauber |
death Johann Rudolf Glauber Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (born 1604) |
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10 Mar 1709
Georg Steller |
birth Georg Steller Georg Steller, German naturalist (died 1746) |
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10 Mar 1748
John Playfair |
birth John Playfair John Playfair, Scottish scientist (died 1819) |
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10 Mar 1792
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute |
death John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, former Prime Minister of Great Britain and botanist (born 1713) |
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10 Mar 1853
William Hampton Patton |
birth William Hampton Patton William Hampton Patton (died 1918), American entomologist. |
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10 Mar 1859
Frank Leverett |
birth Frank Leverett Frank Leverett (died 1943), American glaciologist. |
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10 Mar 1873
John Torrey |
death John Torrey John Torrey (born 1796), botanist |
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10 Mar 1891
Almon B. Strowger |
Almon B. Strowger (technology) Almon B. Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, is granted a patent in the United States for an automatic telephone exchange using the Strowger switch. |
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10 Mar 1923
Val Logsdon Fitch |
birth Val Logsdon Fitch Val Logsdon Fitch (died 2015), American nuclear physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
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10 Mar 1933
Long Beach earthquake |
Long Beach earthquake (earth sciences) Long Beach earthquake in Southern California: First recording of earthquake strong ground motions by an accelerograph network, installed in 1932 by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. |
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10 Mar 1933
Patricia Bergquist |
birth Patricia Bergquist Patricia Bergquist (died 2009), New Zealand scientist who specialized in anatomy and taxonomy. |
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10 Mar 1942
William Henry Bragg |
death William Henry Bragg William Henry Bragg, English recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics (born 1862) |
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10 Mar 1961
Laurel Clark |
birth Laurel Clark Laurel Clark (died 2003), American astronaut. |
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10 Mar 1974
Biz Stone |
birth Biz Stone Biz Stone, American computing entrepreneur |
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10 Mar 1977
Rings of Uranus |
Rings of Uranus (astronomy and space ) Rings of Uranus discovered by Kuiper Airborne Observatory measurements of star occultation. |
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10 Mar 1982
Syzygy |
Syzygy (astronomy) Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun. |
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10 Mar 1985
C. B. van Niel |
death C. B. van Niel C. B. van Niel (b. 1897), Dutch American microbiologist. |
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10 Mar 2000
Nim Chimpsky |
death Nim Chimpsky Nim Chimpsky (b. 1973), chimpanzee |
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