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24 Jun 1637
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc |
death Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (born 1580) |
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24 Jun 1667
Paris Observatory |
Paris Observatory (astronomy) The site of the Paris Observatory is located on the Paris Meridian. |
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24 Jun 1747
English |
English (exploration) October 14 – The English ships Dobbs galley and California, under Captains William Moore and Francis Smith, explore Hudson Bay, discovering there is no Northwest Passage by this route. |
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24 Jun 1795
William Smellie |
death William Smellie William Smellie, Scottish naturalist (born 1740) |
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24 Jun 1880
Oswald Veblen |
birth Oswald Veblen Oswald Veblen (died 1960), American mathematician. |
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24 Jun 1883
Victor Francis Hess |
birth Victor Francis Hess Victor Francis Hess (died 1964), American physicist. |
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24 Jun 1911
Domenico Pacini |
Domenico Pacini (physics) Domenico Pacini runs a series of measurements of underwater ionization in the Gulf of Genoa, demonstrating that the radiation later recognised as cosmic rays cannot be originated by the Earth's crust. |
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24 Jun 1915
Fred Hoyle |
birth Fred Hoyle Fred Hoyle (died 2001), English astronomer and science fiction writer. |
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24 Jun 1924
James W. Black |
birth James W. Black James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1988) (died 2010) |
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24 Jun 1946
Ellison Onizuka |
birth Ellison Onizuka Ellison Onizuka (killed 1986), American astronaut |
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24 Jun 1969
Willy Ley |
death Willy Ley Willy Ley (born 1906), German American scientific populariser. |
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