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09 May 1540
Hernando de Alarcón |
Hernando de Alarcón (exploration) Hernando de Alarcón sets sail to explore the Baja California peninsula; on September 26 he enters the Colorado River. |
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09 May 1635
J. J. Becher |
birth J. J. Becher J. J. Becher, German physician and chemist (died 1682) |
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09 May 1752
Antonio Scarpa |
birth Antonio Scarpa Antonio Scarpa, Italian anatomist (died 1832) |
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09 May 1804
Hewett Watson |
birth Hewett Watson Hewett Watson, English biologist (died 1881) |
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09 May 1812
Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt |
death Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt, French naturalist (born 1751) |
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09 May 1838
Royal Agricultural Society |
Royal Agricultural Society (biology) Royal Agricultural Society of England established. |
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09 May 1893
Kinetoscope |
Kinetoscope (technology) Edison's 1½ inch system of Kinetoscope is first demonstrated in public at the Brooklyn Institute. |
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09 May 1930
Susan Leeman |
birth Susan Leeman Susan Leeman, American neuroendocrinologist. |
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09 May 1937
Alison Jolly |
birth Alison Jolly Alison Jolly (died 2014), American primatologist. |
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09 May 1943
Colin Pillinger |
birth Colin Pillinger Colin Pillinger (died 2014), English astrophysicist. |
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09 May 1947
Michael Levitt |
birth Michael Levitt Michael Levitt, South African-born computational biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2013. |
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09 May 1960
Food and Drug Administration |
Food and Drug Administration (medicine) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces that it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making it the world's first approved combined oral contraceptive pill. |
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