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Science on the 18th of May in history

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Date	Type	Text
18 May 1552 botanist	science	death botanist Theodor Dorsten, German botanist and physician (born 1492)	0
18 May 1711 Ruđer Bošković	science	birth Ruđer Bošković Ruđer Bošković, Ragusan polymath (died 1787)	0
18 May 1742 Lionel Lukin	science	birth Lionel Lukin Lionel Lukin, English inventor (died 1834).	0
18 May 1778 Andrew Ure	science	birth Andrew Ure Andrew Ure, Scottish industrial chemist and encyclopaedist (died 1857)	0
18 May 1808 Elijah Craig	science	death Elijah Craig Rev. Elijah Craig, American inventor of bourbon whiskey (birth date uncertain).	0
18 May 1824 Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister	science	birth Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (died 1877), botanist.	0
18 May 1850 Oliver Heaviside	science	birth Oliver Heaviside Oliver Heaviside (died 1925), physicist.	0
18 May 1859 Harry Fielding Reid	science	birth Harry Fielding Reid Harry Fielding Reid (died 1944), American geophysicist.	0
18 May 1889 Thomas Midgley, Jr.	science	birth Thomas Midgley, Jr. Thomas Midgley, Jr. (died 1944), American chemist and inventor.	0
18 May 1910 Earth	science	Earth (astronomy) Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet.	0
18 May 1921 Olgierd Zienkiewicz	science	birth Olgierd Zienkiewicz Olgierd Zienkiewicz (died 2009), British civil engineer.	0
18 May 1974 Smiling Buddha	science	Smiling Buddha (physics) "Smiling Buddha", India's first nuclear test explosion takes place underground at Pokhran.	0
18 May 1974 Harry Ricardo	science	death Harry Ricardo Harry Ricardo, English mechanical engineer (b. 1885)	0
18 May 1991 Helen Sharman	science	Helen Sharman (astronomy and space ) Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space, flying with the Soyuz TM-12 mission. As of 2011 she is the only British astronaut.	0
18 May 2004 Chandra X-ray Observatory	science	Chandra X-ray Observatory (astronomy) Scientists using the Chandra X-ray Observatory announced their findings that supports the notion that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating.	0
18 May 2005 Hubble Space Telescope	science	Hubble Space Telescope (astronomy) A second photograph by the Hubble Space Telescope confirms the discovery of two new moons of Pluto: Nix and Hydra.	0

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