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11 May 1502
Christopher Columbus |
Christopher Columbus (exploration) Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain for his fourth and final voyage to the New World. |
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11 May 1638
Guy-Crescent Fagon |
birth Guy-Crescent Fagon Guy-Crescent Fagon, French physician and botanist (died 1718) |
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11 May 1684
Daniel Whistler |
death Daniel Whistler Daniel Whistler, English physician (born c. 1619) |
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11 May 1686
Otto von Guericke |
death Otto von Guericke Otto von Guericke, German physicist (born 1602) |
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11 May 1722
Petrus Camper |
birth Petrus Camper Petrus Camper, Dutch comparative anatomist (died 1789) |
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11 May 1751
Pennsylvania Hospital |
Pennsylvania Hospital (medicine and physiol) Pennsylvania Hospital founded in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond, the first in the United States. |
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11 May 1752
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach |
birth Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physiologist and anthropologist (died 1840) |
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11 May 1792
Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition |
Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition (exploration and surv) Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition: Captain Robert Gray on the Columbia Rediviva becomes the first white man to enter the Columbia River. |
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11 May 1813
Gregory Blaxland |
Gregory Blaxland (exploration) Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth leave on an expedition to cross the Blue Mountains (New South Wales). |
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11 May 1844
Samuel Morse |
Samuel Morse (technology) Samuel Morse sends the first message using Morse code. |
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11 May 1854
Ottmar Mergenthaler |
birth Ottmar Mergenthaler Ottmar Mergenthaler (died 1899), German-born inventor. |
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11 May 1871
John Herschel |
death John Herschel John Herschel (born 1792), English mathematician and astronomer. |
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11 May 1891
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel |
death Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (born 1820), physicist. |
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11 May 1916
Karl Schwarzschild |
death Karl Schwarzschild Karl Schwarzschild (born 1873), German astronomer and physicist. |
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11 May 1918
Richard Feynman |
birth Richard Feynman Richard Feynman (died 1988), physicist, Nobel laureate. |
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11 May 1930
Edsger W. Dijkstra |
birth Edsger W. Dijkstra Edsger W. Dijkstra (died 2002), Dutch computer scientist. |
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11 May 1946
Robert Jarvik |
birth Robert Jarvik Robert Jarvik, American co-inventor of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart |
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11 May 1957
Lynn J. Rothschild |
birth Lynn J. Rothschild Lynn J. Rothschild, American evolutionary biologist, astrobiologist and synthetic biologist at NASA's Ames Research Center. |
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11 May 1987
heart-lung transplant |
heart-lung transplant (medicine) The first heart-lung transplant takes place. |
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11 May 1997
IBM |
IBM (computer science) IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov, the first time a computer defeated a chess grand master in a match. Deep Blue had defeated Kasparov before, but had never won a match against him. |
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