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28 May 1500
Bartolomeu Dias |
death Bartolomeu Dias Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1451) (drowned at sea) |
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28 May 1676
Jacopo Riccati |
birth Jacopo Riccati Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (died 1754) |
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28 May 1737
planet |
planet (astronomy) The planet Venus passes in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening by amateur astronomer John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in England. As of 2006, it is still the only such planet/planet occultation that has been directly observed. |
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28 May 1772
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal |
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (technology) The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal opens for traffic throughout in England from a junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal to the River Severn at Stourport. Engineered by James Brindley, this is the first British trunk canal completed and its dimensions determine the size of boat used throughout the narrow canal network (72 feet (22 m) by 7 feet (2.1 m)). |
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28 May 1774
Edward Howard |
birth Edward Howard Edward Howard (died 1816), chemist. |
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28 May 1807
Louis Agassiz |
birth Louis Agassiz Louis Agassiz, zoologist and geologist (died 1873) |
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28 May 1836
Alexander Mitscherlich |
birth Alexander Mitscherlich Alexander Mitscherlich (died 1918), chemist. |
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28 May 1859
Edward Hopkinson |
birth Edward Hopkinson Edward Hopkinson (died 1922), English electrical engineer. |
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28 May 1879
Milutin Milanković |
birth Milutin Milanković Milutin Milanković (died 1958), Serbian geophysicist. |
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28 May 1892
Scottish American |
Scottish American (environment) Scottish American naturalist John Muir founds the environmental organization the Sierra Club in San Francisco, aided by a group of professors from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. |
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28 May 1913
John Lubbock |
death John Lubbock John Lubbock (born 1834), naturalist and archaeologist. |
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28 May 1936
Alan Turing |
Alan Turing (computer science) Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" to the London Mathematical Society for publication, introducing the concept of the theoretical "a[utomatic]-machine" or Turing machine. Its formal publication is on November 12. |
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28 May 1937
Alfred Adler |
death Alfred Adler Alfred Adler (born 1870), Austrian psychotherapist. |
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28 May 1980
Rolf Nevanlinna |
death Rolf Nevanlinna Rolf Nevanlinna (b. 1895), Finnish mathematician. |
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28 May 1998
Chagai-I |
Chagai-I (physics) Nuclear testing: The Chagai-I: In response to India, Pakistan conducts five underground and simultaneous nuclear weapon-testing experiments in the Chagai Hills, thus becoming the first nuclear weapon state in the Muslim world and the seventh in the world. |
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28 May 2001
Francisco Varela |
death Francisco Varela Francisco Varela (b. 1946), Chilean biologist and philosopher. |
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28 May 2003
Prometea |
birth Prometea Prometea, the first cloned horse. |
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28 May 2003
Ilya Prigogine |
death Ilya Prigogine Ilya Prigogine (b. 1917), chemist, Nobel laureate in chemistry. |
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28 May 2003
Oleg Makarov |
death Oleg Makarov Oleg Makarov (b. 1933), cosmonaut |
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