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Science on the 26th of April in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
26 Apr 1672 Lionel Lockyer	science	death Lionel Lockyer Lionel Lockyer, English quack doctor (born c. 1600)	0
26 Apr 1745 Johann Anton Güldenstädt	science	birth Johann Anton Güldenstädt Johann Anton Güldenstädt, German naturalist and explorer (died 1781)	0
26 Apr 1785 John James Audubon	science	birth John James Audubon John James Audubon, naturalist, illustrator (died 1851)	0
26 Apr 1803 meteorite	science	meteorite (astronomy) A meteorite shower falls on L'Aigle in Normandy; Jean Baptiste Biot demonstrates that it is of extraterrestrial origin.	0
26 Apr 1827 Royal Netherlands Navy	science	Royal Netherlands Navy (technology) May 24 – The Royal Netherlands Navy's British-built paddle steamer Curaçao makes the first Transatlantic Crossing by steam, from Hellevoetsluis to Paramaribo.	0
26 Apr 1879 Royal National Park	science	Royal National Park (biology) The National Park, later renamed the Royal National Park, is declared in New South Wales, Australia, the world's second oldest purposed national park (after Yellowstone in the United States), and the first to use the term "national park".	0
26 Apr 1895 Wildlife Conservation Society	science	Wildlife Conservation Society (biology) The New York Zoological Society, the modern-day Wildlife Conservation Society, is chartered.	0
26 Apr 1900 Guglielmo Marconi	science	Guglielmo Marconi (physics) Guglielmo Marconi patents the tuned circuit.	0
26 Apr 1900 Charles Richter	science	birth Charles Richter Charles Richter (died 1985), geophysicist and inventor.	0
26 Apr 1914 Eduard Suess	science	death Eduard Suess Eduard Suess (born 1831), German geologist and ecologist.	0
26 Apr 1920 Srinivasa Ramanujan	science	death Srinivasa Ramanujan Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (born 1887).	0
26 Apr 1927 Anne McLaren	science	birth Anne McLaren Anne McLaren (died 2007), English developmental biologist.	0
26 Apr 1932 Michael Smith	science	birth Michael Smith Michael Smith (died 2000), English-born biochemist, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.	0
26 Apr 1962 Ranger 4	science	Ranger 4 (astronomy and space ) The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.	0

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