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Science on the 25th of May in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
25 May 1555 Gemma Frisius	science	death Gemma Frisius Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (born 1508)	0
25 May 1624 Parliament of England	science	Parliament of England The Parliament of England passes the Statute of Monopolies, requiring patent monopolies to show novelty.	0
25 May 1676 Johann Rahn	science	death Johann Rahn Johann Rahn, Swiss mathematician (born 1622)	0
25 May 1713 John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart	science	birth John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, Scottish politician and botanist (died 1792)	0
25 May 1775 Joseph Priestley	science	Joseph Priestley (chemistry) Joseph Priestley's account of his isolation of oxygen in the form of a gas ("dephlogisticated air") is read to the Royal Society of London.	0
25 May 1789 Anders Dahl	science	death Anders Dahl Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist for whom the dahlia is named (born 1751)	0
25 May 1812 Felling mine disaster	science	Felling mine disaster (technology) Felling mine disaster: Mine explosion at Felling colliery near Jarrow, England – 96 dead.	0
25 May 1821 Henri Alexis Brialmont	science	birth Henri Alexis Brialmont Henri Alexis Brialmont (died 1903), Limburgish military engineer.	0
25 May 1850 hippopotamus	science	hippopotamus (biology) The young hippopotamus Obaysch arrives at London Zoo from Egypt, the first seen in Europe since Roman times.	0
25 May 1860 James McKeen Cattell	science	birth James McKeen Cattell James McKeen Cattell (died 1944), American psychologist.	0
25 May 1902 Calvin Souther Fuller	science	birth Calvin Souther Fuller Calvin Souther Fuller (died 1994), American physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories.	0
25 May 1941 Uta Frith	science	birth Uta Frith Uta Frith, German-born British developmental psychologist.	0
25 May 1961 Apollo program	science	Apollo program (astronomy and space ) Apollo program: President Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade.	0
25 May 1988 Ernst Ruska	science	death Ernst Ruska Ernst Ruska (born 1906), Nobel Prize Physicist	0

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