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05 Apr 1622
Vincenzo Viviani |
birth Vincenzo Viviani Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (died 1703) |
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05 Apr 1684
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker |
death William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, English mathematician (born 1620) |
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05 Apr 1804
High Possil meteorite |
High Possil meteorite (astronomy and space ) High Possil meteorite, the first recorded meteorite to fall in Scotland in modern times, falls at Possil. |
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05 Apr 1804
Matthias Schleiden |
birth Matthias Schleiden Matthias Schleiden, biologist (died 1881) |
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05 Apr 1806
Benjamin Bell |
death Benjamin Bell Benjamin Bell, Scottish surgeon (born 1749) |
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05 Apr 1815
Mount Tambora |
Mount Tambora (earth sciences) Volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. About 92,000 people die as a direct consequence of this disaster, the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The eruption sends so much volcanic ash into the atmosphere that weather patterns around the world are altered, causing 1816 to be the "Year Without A Summer". |
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05 Apr 1827
Joseph Lister |
birth Joseph Lister Joseph Lister (died 1912), British inventor of antiseptic. |
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05 Apr 1866
Thomas Hodgkin |
death Thomas Hodgkin Thomas Hodgkin (born 1798), physician |
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05 Apr 1872
Samuel Cate Prescott |
birth Samuel Cate Prescott Samuel Cate Prescott (died 1962), American food scientist and microbiologist |
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05 Apr 1877
Walter Sutton |
birth Walter Sutton Walter Sutton (died 1916), American geneticist and surgeon. |
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05 Apr 1886
Frederick Lindemann |
birth Frederick Lindemann Frederick Lindemann, German-born British physicist (died 1957) |
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05 Apr 1912
Milutin Milanković |
Milutin Milanković (meteorology) Milutin Milanković’s Contribution to the mathematical theory of climate, his first work in this field, is published in Belgrade. |
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05 Apr 1929
Ivar Giaever |
birth Ivar Giaever Ivar Giaever, Norwegian winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
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05 Apr 1949
Judith Resnik |
birth Judith Resnik Judith Resnik (died 1986), American astronaut. |
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05 Apr 1967
Hermann Joseph Muller |
death Hermann Joseph Muller Hermann Joseph Muller (born 1890), American geneticist. |
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05 Apr 1972
Nima Arkani-Hamed |
birth Nima Arkani-Hamed Nima Arkani-Hamed, Canadian-American theoretical physicist. |
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05 Apr 1979
Kakadu National Park |
Kakadu National Park (conservation) First stage of Kakadu National Park declared in Australia. |
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05 Apr 1979
Eugène Gabritschevsky |
death Eugène Gabritschevsky Eugène Gabritschevsky (b. 1893), Russian biologist and artist. |
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05 Apr 1998
Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge |
Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge (technology) In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū, at a cost of about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the longest-span suspension bridge in the world. |
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