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06 May 1625
George Bruce of Carnock |
death George Bruce of Carnock George Bruce of Carnock, Scottish coal mining engineer (born c.1550) |
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06 May 1673
Werner Rolfinck |
death Werner Rolfinck Werner Rolfinck, German scientist (born 1599) |
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06 May 1754
Thomas Coke |
birth Thomas Coke Thomas Coke, English agriculturalist and geneticist (died 1842) |
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06 May 1843
G. K. Gilbert |
birth G. K. Gilbert G. K. Gilbert (died 1918), American geologist. |
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06 May 1859
Alexander von Humboldt |
death Alexander von Humboldt Alexander von Humboldt (born 1769), German naturalist and explorer. |
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06 May 1862
Olry Terquem |
death Olry Terquem Olry Terquem (born 1782), French Jewish geometer |
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06 May 1872
Willem de Sitter |
birth Willem de Sitter Willem de Sitter (died 1934), mathematician, physicist and astronomer |
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06 May 1872
George Robert Gray |
death George Robert Gray George Robert Gray (born 1808), zoologist |
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06 May 1880
Friedrich Bayer |
death Friedrich Bayer Friedrich Bayer (born 1825), German manufacturing chemist. |
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06 May 1889
Exposition Universelle |
Exposition Universelle (technology) October 31 – Exposition Universelle in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower as its entrance arch. At 300 m, the tower's height exceeds the previous tallest structure in the world by 130 m. The Galerie des machines, designed by architect Ferdinand Dutert and engineer Victor Contamin, at 111 m, spans the longest interior space in the world at this time. |
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06 May 1895
Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad |
Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad (technology) The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad is opened in Chicago as the first electrically operated rapid transit system in the United States, including the first completed Scherzer rolling lift bridge. |
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06 May 1916
Robert H. Dicke |
birth Robert H. Dicke Robert H. Dicke (died 1997), American physicist. |
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06 May 1922
Ralph F. Hirschmann |
birth Ralph F. Hirschmann Ralph F. Hirschmann (died 2009), German American biochemist, leader of a team responsible for the first organic synthesis of an enzyme, a ribonuclease; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (shared with Har Gobind Khorana). |
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06 May 1929
Paul Lauterbur |
birth Paul Lauterbur Paul Lauterbur (died 2007), American chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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06 May 1949
EDSAC |
EDSAC (computer science) EDSAC, the first practicable stored-program computer, runs its first program at Cambridge University, to calculate a table of squares. |
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06 May 1953
open heart surgery |
open heart surgery (medicine and human s) The first successful open heart surgery on a human utilizing a cardiopulmonary bypass pump ("heart-lung machine") is performed by John Gibbon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia when he repairs an atrial septal defect in 18-year-old Cecilia Bavolek. |
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06 May 1979
Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth |
death Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (b. 1892), German astronomer. |
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06 May 1994
Channel Tunnel |
Channel Tunnel (technology) The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers over seven years to complete, opens between England and France. It is now possible to travel between the two countries in 35 minutes. |
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