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02 May 1519
Leonardo da Vinci |
death Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath (born 1452) |
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02 May 1588
Étienne Pascal |
birth Étienne Pascal Étienne Pascal, French mathematician (died 1651) |
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02 May 1667
Jacob Christoph Le Blon |
birth Jacob Christoph Le Blon Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German inventor of four-colour printing (died 1741) |
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02 May 1745
Company of Surgeons |
Company of Surgeons (medicine) The Company of Surgeons separates from the Company of Barbers of London. |
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02 May 1798
Erland Samuel Bring |
death Erland Samuel Bring Erland Samuel Bring, Swedish mathematician (born 1736) |
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02 May 1810
Jean-Louis Baudelocque |
death Jean-Louis Baudelocque Jean-Louis Baudelocque, French obstetrician (born 1745) |
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02 May 1859
Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (technology) Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge for the Cornwall Railway at Saltash in England is officially opened. |
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02 May 1868
Robert W. Wood |
birth Robert W. Wood Robert W. Wood (died 1955), optical physicist. |
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02 May 1903
Benjamin Spock |
birth Benjamin Spock Benjamin Spock (died 1998), pediatrician, writer. |
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02 May 1927
Ernest Starling |
death Ernest Starling Ernest Starling (born 1866), English physiologist. |
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02 May 1946
Simon Flexner |
death Simon Flexner Simon Flexner (born 1863), pathologist and bacteriologist. |
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02 May 1960
coronary artery bypass surgery |
coronary artery bypass surgery (medicine) The first coronary artery bypass surgery is performed by a team led by Dr. Robert Goetz and thoracic surgeon Dr. Michael Rohman with the assistance of Drs. Jordan Haller and Ronald Dee at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Bronx Municipal Hospital Center in the United States using internal mammary artery as the donor vessel; the patient survives for 9 months. |
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02 May 1997
John Carew Eccles |
death John Carew Eccles John Carew Eccles (b. 1903), psychologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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