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19 Jun 1504
Bernhard Walther |
death Bernhard Walther Bernhard Walther, German astronomer (born 1430) |
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19 Jun 1623
Blaise Pascal |
birth Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (died 1662) |
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19 Jun 1715
Nicolas Lémery |
death Nicolas Lémery Nicolas Lémery, French pharmacist and chemist (born 1645) |
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19 Jun 1736
French Academy of Sciences |
French Academy of Sciences (earth sciences) French Academy of Sciences expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in the Torne Valley of Finland. |
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19 Jun 1820
Joseph Banks |
death Joseph Banks Joseph Banks (born 1743), naturalist. |
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19 Jun 1844
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire |
death Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (born 1772), French naturalist. |
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19 Jun 1877
Eadweard Muybridge |
Eadweard Muybridge Eadweard Muybridge successfully produces a fast-motion sequence of photographs showing a horse in movement, Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, using multiple cameras at Palo Alto, California, demonstrating that a running horse has all four legs lifted off the ground at once. The sequence could be run on a Zoopraxiscope. |
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19 Jun 1922
Aage Bohr |
birth Aage Bohr Aage Bohr (died 2009), Danish nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate. |
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