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15 Jun 1667
Jean-Baptiste Denys |
Jean-Baptiste Denys (physiology and medic) Jean-Baptiste Denys performs the first blood transfusion from a lamb into a boy. |
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15 Jun 1755
Antoine François |
birth Antoine François Antoine François, French chemist (died 1809) |
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15 Jun 1768
James Short |
death James Short James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (born 1710) |
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15 Jun 1878
Eadweard Muybridge |
Eadweard Muybridge (technology) Eadweard Muybridge produces the sequence of stop-motion still photographs Sallie Gardner at a Gallop in California, a predecessor of silent film (capable of being viewed as an animation on a zoopraxiscope) demonstrating that all four feet of a galloping horse are off the ground at the same time. |
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15 Jun 1896
1896 Sanriku earthquake |
1896 Sanriku earthquake (earth sciences) The 1896 Sanriku earthquake of 7.2 surface wave magnitude and tsunami in Japan kill 27,000. |
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15 Jun 1915
Thomas Huckle Weller |
birth Thomas Huckle Weller Thomas Huckle Weller (died 2008), American virologist and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1954) for his work on polio. |
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15 Jun 1993
PDF format |
PDF format (computer science) Adobe publishes the first version of the PDF format together with version 1.0 of its PDF product line Adobe Acrobat |
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