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18 Mar 1602
Jacques de Billy |
birth Jacques de Billy Jacques de Billy, French Jesuit mathematician (died 1679) |
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18 Mar 1690
Christian Goldbach |
birth Christian Goldbach Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (died 1764) |
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18 Mar 1845
Johnny Appleseed |
death Johnny Appleseed 'Johnny Appleseed' (John Chapman) (born 1774), nurseryman. |
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18 Mar 1858
Rudolf Diesel |
birth Rudolf Diesel Rudolf Diesel (died 1913), German mechanical engineer. |
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18 Mar 1871
Augustus De Morgan |
death Augustus De Morgan Augustus De Morgan (born 1806), British logician. |
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18 Mar 1899
Othniel Charles Marsh |
death Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh (born 1831), paleontologist. |
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18 Mar 1905
Thomas Townsend Brown |
birth Thomas Townsend Brown Thomas Townsend Brown (died 1985), American inventor |
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18 Mar 1906
Romanian |
Romanian (technology) Romanian inventor Traian Vuia becomes the first person to fly a heavier-than-air monoplane with unassisted takeoff, at Montesson in France. |
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18 Mar 1907
J. Z. Young |
birth J. Z. Young J. Z. Young (died 1997), English zoologist and neurophysiologist. |
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18 Mar 1944
Mount Vesuvius |
Mount Vesuvius (geology) Last eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
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18 Mar 1950
Linda Partridge |
birth Linda Partridge Linda Partridge, English biogerontologist. |
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18 Mar 1983
Ivan Vinogradov |
death Ivan Vinogradov Ivan Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891) |
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18 Mar 1987
Woodstock of physics |
Woodstock of physics (physics) Woodstock of physics, the marathon session of the American Physical Society’s meeting featuring 51 presentations concerning the science of high-temperature superconductors. |
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