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Science on the 14th of April in history

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Date	Type	Text
14 Apr 1626 Gaspare Aselli	science	death Gaspare Aselli Gaspare Aselli, Italian anatomist (born c. 1581)	0
14 Apr 1629 Christiaan Huygens	science	birth Christiaan Huygens Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist (died 1695)	0
14 Apr 1678 Abraham Darby I	science	birth Abraham Darby I Abraham Darby I, ironmaster (died 1717)	0
14 Apr 1714 Anne, Queen of Great Britain	science	Anne, Queen of Great Britain (medicine) Anne, Queen of Great Britain, performs the last touching for the "King's evil".	0
14 Apr 1868 Annie Russell	science	birth Annie Russell Annie Russell (died 1947), astronomer.	0
14 Apr 1892 Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth	science	birth Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (died 1979), German astronomer.	0
14 Apr 1905 Otto Wilhelm von Struve	science	death Otto Wilhelm von Struve Otto Wilhelm von Struve (born 1819), astronomer	0
14 Apr 1912 Sinking of the RMS Titanic	science	Sinking of the RMS Titanic (technology) Sinking of the RMS Titanic: The ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg and sinks on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States.	0
14 Apr 1913 Carl Hagenbeck	science	death Carl Hagenbeck Carl Hagenbeck (born 1844), zoologist.	0
14 Apr 1916 Lawrence Hogben	science	birth Lawrence Hogben Lawrence Hogben (died 2015), New Zealand meteorologist.	0
14 Apr 1956 quadruplex videotape	science	quadruplex videotape (technology) 2-inch quadruplex videotape, the first practical and commercially successful analog recording videotape format, is released for the broadcast television industry by Ampex of Redwood City, California.	0
14 Apr 1958 Sputnik 2	science	Sputnik 2 (astronomy and space ) Sputnik 2 re-enters Earth's atmosphere.	0

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