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27 May 1538
Anthony Fitzherbert |
death Anthony Fitzherbert Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, English judge and agriculturalist (born 1470). |
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27 May 1781
Giovanni Battista Beccaria |
death Giovanni Battista Beccaria Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (born 1716) |
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27 May 1787
Benjamin Valz |
birth Benjamin Valz Benjamin Valz (died 1867), French astronomer. |
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27 May 1865
Charles Waterton |
death Charles Waterton Charles Waterton (born 1782), English naturalist and explorer. |
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27 May 1901
Edison Storage Battery Company |
Edison Storage Battery Company (chemistry) The Edison Storage Battery Company is founded in New Jersey. |
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27 May 1910
Robert Koch |
death Robert Koch Robert Koch (born 1843), German bacteriologist. |
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27 May 1914
Joseph Swan |
death Joseph Swan Joseph Swan (born 1828), English physicist. |
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27 May 1925
John L. Harper |
birth John L. Harper John L. Harper (died 2009), British biologist, specializing in ecology and plant population biology. |
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27 May 1931
Swiss |
Swiss (technology) Swiss-born scientist Auguste Piccard and his assistant, engineer Paul Kipfer, taking off from Augsburg, Germany, reach a record altitude of 15,785 m (51,788 ft) in a balloon with a pressurized gondola, gathering data on the upper atmosphere and measuring cosmic rays, the first human flight into the stratosphere. |
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27 May 1949
Ægidius Elling |
death Ægidius Elling Ægidius Elling (born 1861), Norwegian gas turbine pioneer. |
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27 May 1958
ACM |
ACM (computer science) June 2 – A joint meeting of the ACM and GAMM at ETH Zurich agrees to produce the International Algebraic Language, which will become the programming language ALGOL. |
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27 May 1967
Tilly Edinger |
death Tilly Edinger Tilly Edinger (born 1897), German American paleoneurologist. |
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27 May 2004
Mikhail Postnikov |
death Mikhail Postnikov Mikhail Postnikov (b. 1927), Soviet mathematician, known for his work in algebraic and differential topology. |
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