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Science on the 18th of April in history

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Date	Type	Text
18 Apr 1734 Elsa Beata Bunge	science	birth Elsa Beata Bunge Elsa Beata Bunge, Swedish botanist (died 1819)	0
18 Apr 1802 Erasmus Darwin	science	death Erasmus Darwin Erasmus Darwin, English author of Zoonomia (born 1731)	0
18 Apr 1873 Justus von Liebig	science	death Justus von Liebig Justus von Liebig (born 1803), chemist	0
18 Apr 1905 William Bateson	science	William Bateson (biology) William Bateson coins the term "genetics" in a letter to Adam Sedgwick.	0
18 Apr 1905 George H. Hitchings	science	birth George H. Hitchings George H. Hitchings (died 1998), scientist, Nobel laureate in Medicine	0
18 Apr 1906 San Francisco earthquake	science	San Francisco earthquake (geology) The San Francisco earthquake, an estimated 7.9 on the Richter scale and centered on the San Andreas fault, strikes near San Francisco, California. The earthquake and fire destroy over 80% of the buildings in the city, and kill as many as 6,000 people. Harry Fielding Reid devizes the elastic-rebound theory to account for earthquake mechanism.	0
18 Apr 1911 Maurice Goldhaber	science	birth Maurice Goldhaber Maurice Goldhaber (died 2011), Austrian-born physicist.	0
18 Apr 1916 Peter Nissen	science	Peter Nissen (technology) Capt. Peter Nissen completes the prototype Nissen hut.	0
18 Apr 1917 Brian Harold Mason	science	birth Brian Harold Mason Brian Harold Mason (died 2009), New Zealand born geochemist and mineralogist who was one of the pioneers in the study of meteorites.	0
18 Apr 1934 Citroën Traction Avant	science	Citroën Traction Avant (technology) Citroën Traction Avant introduced, the world's first front-wheel drive monocoque (welded steel unit body) production automobile, designed by André Lefèbvre and Flaminio Bertoni.	0
18 Apr 1947 Mrs. Ples	science	Mrs. Ples (paleontology) "Mrs. Ples" (STS 5), the most complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus specimen ever found in South Africa, is discovered at Sterkfontein by Robert Broom and John T. Robinson.	0
18 Apr 1948 Yasumasa Kanada	science	birth Yasumasa Kanada Yasumasa Kanada, Japanese mathematician.	0
18 Apr 1955 Albert Einstein	science	death Albert Einstein Albert Einstein (born 1879), German-born winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.	0
18 Apr 2002 insects	science	insects (biology) New suborder of insects, Mantophasmatidae, announced.	0
18 Apr 2002 Thor Heyerdahl	science	death Thor Heyerdahl Thor Heyerdahl (b. 1914), explorer, led the Kon-Tiki expedition.	0

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