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Science on the 17th of June in history

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Date	Type	Text
17 Jun 1579 Francis Drake	science	Francis Drake (exploration) Francis Drake, during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in what is now California, which he claims for Queen Elizabeth I of England as Nova Albion.	0
17 Jun 1579 Johannes Stadius	science	death Johannes Stadius Johannes Stadius, Flemish mathematician and astronomer (born c. 1527)	0
17 Jun 1596 Willem Barents	science	Willem Barents (exploration) Willem Barents makes the first documented discovery of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago.	0
17 Jun 1704 John Kay	science	birth John Kay John Kay, English inventor (died 1780)	0
17 Jun 1714 César-François Cassini de Thury	science	birth César-François Cassini de Thury César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (died 1784)	0
17 Jun 1767 Royal Navy	science	Royal Navy (exploration) British Royal Navy Captain Samuel Wallis becomes the first European definitely to visit the island of Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean, during HMS Dolphin‍ 's second circumnavigation.	0
17 Jun 1784 Andrew Crosse	science	birth Andrew Crosse Andrew Crosse, English 'gentleman scientist', pioneer experimenter in electricity (died 1855)	0
17 Jun 1823 Charles Macintosh	science	Charles Macintosh (chemistry) Charles Macintosh patents a method of rubberizing fabric to waterproof it.	0
17 Jun 1832 William Crookes	science	birth William Crookes William Crookes (died 1919), chemist and physicist.	0
17 Jun 1882 Harold Gillies	science	birth Harold Gillies Harold Gillies (died 1960), New Zealand-born plastic surgeon.	0
17 Jun 1920 François Jacob	science	birth François Jacob François Jacob, French biologist, Nobel Prize laureate.	0
17 Jun 1925 Alexander Shulgin	science	birth Alexander Shulgin Alexander Shulgin (died 2014), American psychopharmacologist.	0
17 Jun 1950 kidney transplantation	science	kidney transplantation (medicine) The first cadaveric internal kidney transplantation is performed on Ruth Tucker, a 44-year-old woman with polycystic kidney disease, at Little Company of Mary Hospital (Evergreen Park), Illinois. Although the donated kidney is rejected 10 months later because no effective immunosuppressive drugs have been developed at this time, the intervening time gives Tucker's remaining kidney time to recover and she lives another 5 years.	0
17 Jun 1987 Dusky Seaside Sparrow	science	Dusky Seaside Sparrow (zoology) The last known purebred Dusky Seaside Sparrow, "Orange Band", dies in Florida.	0
17 Jun 1996 Thomas Kuhn	science	death Thomas Kuhn Thomas Kuhn (b. 1922), American philosopher of science.	0

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