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22 May 1700
Louis Jolliet |
death Louis Jolliet Louis Jolliet, Canadian explorer (born 1645) |
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22 May 1724
Giacomo F. Maraldi |
Giacomo F. Maraldi (astronomy) Giacomo F. Maraldi concludes, from his observations during an eclipse, that the corona is part of the Sun. |
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22 May 1733
Alexander Monro |
birth Alexander Monro Alexander Monro, Scottish anatomist (died 1817) |
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22 May 1735
George Hadley |
George Hadley (meteorology) George Hadley publishes the first explanation of the trade winds. |
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22 May 1783
William Sturgeon |
birth William Sturgeon William Sturgeon, English inventor (died 1850) |
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22 May 1819
SS Savannah |
SS Savannah (technology) SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, although only a fraction of the trip is made under steam. The ship arrives at Liverpool, England, on June 20. |
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22 May 1826
HMS Beagle |
HMS Beagle (exploration) HMS Beagle departs on her first voyage from Plymouth for a hydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of South America. |
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22 May 1868
Julius Plücker |
death Julius Plücker Julius Plücker (born 1801), mathematician and physicist. |
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22 May 1878
John Philip Holland |
John Philip Holland (technology) John Philip Holland's experimental powered submarine Holland I is launched in Paterson, New Jersey. |
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22 May 1886
Hermann Stieve |
birth Hermann Stieve Hermann Stieve, German anatomist and histologist (died 1952) |
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22 May 1900
Honor Fell |
birth Honor Fell Honor Fell (died 1986), biologist. |
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22 May 1911
Anatol Rapoport |
birth Anatol Rapoport Anatol Rapoport (died 2007), Russian-born mathematical psychologist. |
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22 May 1912
Herbert C. Brown |
birth Herbert C. Brown Herbert C. Brown (died 2004), English-born chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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22 May 1915
Lassen Peak |
Lassen Peak (earth sciences) Lassen Peak, one of the Cascade Volcanoes in Northern California, erupts, sending an ash plume 30,000 feet in the air and devastating the nearby area with pyroclastic flows and lahars. It is the only volcano to erupt in the contiguous United States between 1900 and 1980. |
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22 May 1958
Jérôme Lejeune |
Jérôme Lejeune (medicine) Jérôme Lejeune, working with Marthe Gautier in Raymond Turpin's French laboratory, discovers that the genetic cause of Down syndrome is an extra copy of chromosome 21. |
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22 May 1960
Valdivia earthquake |
Valdivia earthquake (earth sciences) Valdivia earthquake: Chile's subduction fault ruptures from Talcahuano to the Taitao Peninsula (with its epicenter near Lumaco), causing the most powerful earthquake on record (with a magnitude of 9.5) and a tsunami. |
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22 May 1980
arcade game |
arcade game (computer science) The arcade game Pac-Man is released in Japan. |
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22 May 1982
Jay Laurence Lush |
death Jay Laurence Lush Jay Laurence Lush (b. 1896), American livestock geneticist. |
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22 May 1983
Albert Claude |
death Albert Claude Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 (b. 1898) |
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