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Science on the 16th of March in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
16 Mar 1521 Philippines	science	Philippines (exploration) Magellan reaches the Philippines.	0
16 Mar 1750 Caroline Herschel	science	birth Caroline Herschel Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (died 1848)	0
16 Mar 1769 Louis Antoine de Bougainville	science	Louis Antoine de Bougainville (exploration) Louis Antoine de Bougainville returns to Saint-Malo following a three-year circumnavigation of the world with the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile, with the loss of only seven out of 330 men.	0
16 Mar 1787 Georg Ohm	science	birth Georg Ohm Georg Ohm (died 1854), German physicist.	0
16 Mar 1830 Mauritius	science	Mauritius (astronomy) Great Comet of 1830 (C/1830 F1, 1830 I) first observed in Mauritius.	0
16 Mar 1839 René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme	science	birth René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme (died 1907), French engineer and poet.	0
16 Mar 1851 Martinus Beijerinck	science	birth Martinus Beijerinck Martinus Beijerinck (died 1931), Dutch microbiologist and botanist.	0
16 Mar 1867 Joseph Lister	science	Joseph Lister (medicine) First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.	0
16 Mar 1877 Thomas Wyatt Turner	science	birth Thomas Wyatt Turner Thomas Wyatt Turner (died 1978), American civil rights activist, biologist and educator; first black person ever to receive a doctorate from Cornell.	0
16 Mar 1878 William Banting	science	death William Banting William Banting, English undertaker and dietician (b. c.1796)	0
16 Mar 1889 Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel	science	death Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (born 1821), German astronomer.	0
16 Mar 1915 Kunihiko Kodaira	science	birth Kunihiko Kodaira Kunihiko Kodaira (died 1997), Japanese mathematician.	0
16 Mar 1918 Frederick Reines	science	birth Frederick Reines Frederick Reines (died 1998), physicist.	0
16 Mar 1926 Robert Goddard	science	Robert Goddard (astronomy and space ) Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.	0
16 Mar 1927 Vladimir Komarov	science	birth Vladimir Komarov Vladimir Komarov (died 1967), Russian cosmonaut on Soyuz 1.	0
16 Mar 1966 NASA	science	NASA (astronomy and space ) NASA spacecraft Gemini 8 (David Scott, Neil Armstrong) conducts the first docking in space, with an Agena target vehicle.	0
16 Mar 1998 Derek Barton	science	death Derek Barton Derek Barton (b. 1918), chemist, Nobel laureate.	0

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