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Science on the 25th of March in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
25 Mar 1501 Portuguese	science	Portuguese (exploration) Portuguese navigator João da Nova probably discovers Ascension Island.	0
25 Mar 1538 Christopher Clavius	science	birth Christopher Clavius Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1612).	0
25 Mar 1625 John Collins	science	birth John Collins John Collins, English mathematician (died 1683)	0
25 Mar 1655 Titan	science	Titan (astronomy) Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.	0
25 Mar 1712 Nehemiah Grew	science	death Nehemiah Grew Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (born 1641)	0
25 Mar 1811 Great Comet	science	Great Comet (astronomy) Great Comet discovered by Honoré Flaugergues.	0
25 Mar 1825 Max Schultze	science	birth Max Schultze Max Schultze (died 1874), German physiologist.	0
25 Mar 1833 Fleeming Jenkin	science	birth Fleeming Jenkin Fleeming Jenkin (died 1885), engineer.	0
25 Mar 1843 Thames Tunnel	science	Thames Tunnel (technology) Completion of the Thames Tunnel, the first bored underwater tunnel in the world (engineer: Marc Isambard Brunel).	0
25 Mar 1844 Adolf Engler	science	birth Adolf Engler Adolf Engler (died 1930), German botanist.	0
25 Mar 1863 Simon Flexner	science	birth Simon Flexner Simon Flexner (d. 1946), American pathologist and bacteriologist.	0
25 Mar 1914 Norman Borlaug	science	birth Norman Borlaug Norman Borlaug (died 2009), American agronomist, humanitarian and Nobel laureate.	0
25 Mar 1931 John A. Eddy	science	birth John A. Eddy John A. Eddy (died 2009), American astronomer.	0
25 Mar 1948 Tinker Air Force Base	science	Tinker Air Force Base (meteorology) Meteorologists at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City issue the world's first tornado forecast, for the second of the 1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes.	0
25 Mar 1982 Rufus P. Turner	science	death Rufus P. Turner Rufus P. Turner (b. 1907), African American electronic engineer.	0
25 Mar 1995 Ward Cunningham	science	Ward Cunningham (computer science) Ward Cunningham loads the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, in Oregon.	0

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