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26 Apr 1672
Lionel Lockyer |
death Lionel Lockyer Lionel Lockyer, English quack doctor (born c. 1600) |
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26 Apr 1745
Johann Anton Güldenstädt |
birth Johann Anton Güldenstädt Johann Anton Güldenstädt, German naturalist and explorer (died 1781) |
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26 Apr 1785
John James Audubon |
birth John James Audubon John James Audubon, naturalist, illustrator (died 1851) |
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26 Apr 1803
meteorite |
meteorite (astronomy) A meteorite shower falls on L'Aigle in Normandy; Jean Baptiste Biot demonstrates that it is of extraterrestrial origin. |
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26 Apr 1827
Royal Netherlands Navy |
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. |
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26 Apr 1879
Royal National Park |
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". |
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26 Apr 1895
Wildlife Conservation Society |
Wildlife Conservation Society (biology) The New York Zoological Society, the modern-day Wildlife Conservation Society, is chartered. |
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26 Apr 1900
Guglielmo Marconi |
Guglielmo Marconi (physics) Guglielmo Marconi patents the tuned circuit. |
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26 Apr 1900
Charles Richter |
birth Charles Richter Charles Richter (died 1985), geophysicist and inventor. |
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26 Apr 1914
Eduard Suess |
death Eduard Suess Eduard Suess (born 1831), German geologist and ecologist. |
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26 Apr 1920
Srinivasa Ramanujan |
death Srinivasa Ramanujan Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (born 1887). |
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26 Apr 1927
Anne McLaren |
birth Anne McLaren Anne McLaren (died 2007), English developmental biologist. |
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26 Apr 1932
Michael Smith |
birth Michael Smith Michael Smith (died 2000), English-born biochemist, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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26 Apr 1962
Ranger 4 |
Ranger 4 (astronomy and space ) The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. |