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Science on the 26th of June in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
26 Jun 1694 Georg Brandt	science	birth Georg Brandt Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist (died 1768)	0
26 Jun 1730 Charles Messier	science	birth Charles Messier Charles Messier, French astronomer (died 1817)	0
26 Jun 1793 Gilbert White	science	death Gilbert White Gilbert White, English naturalist (born 1720)	0
26 Jun 1810 Joseph Michel Montgolfier	science	death Joseph Michel Montgolfier Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French pioneer balloonist (born 1740).	0
26 Jun 1824 William Thomson	science	birth William Thomson William Thomson (died 1907), Lord Kelvin, physicist.	0
26 Jun 1826 Morgan Crofton	science	birth Morgan Crofton Morgan Crofton (died 1915), Irish mathematician.	0
26 Jun 1883 Edward Sabine	science	death Edward Sabine General Sir Edward Sabine (born 1788), Anglo-Irish physicist, astronomer and explorer.	0
26 Jun 1886 Henri Moissan	science	Henri Moissan (chemistry) Henri Moissan reports the successful isolation of elemental fluorine by electrolysis of a solution of potassium hydrogen difluoride in liquid hydrogen fluoride.	0
26 Jun 1897 British	science	British (technology) At the British Fleet Review, Charles Parsons gives a spectacular display of the unprecedented speed attainable by his steam turbine-powered Turbinia.	0
26 Jun 1898 Willy Messerschmitt	science	birth Willy Messerschmitt Willy Messerschmitt (died 1978), German aeronautical engineer.	0
26 Jun 1907 Robert Gwyn Macfarlane	science	birth Robert Gwyn Macfarlane Robert Gwyn Macfarlane (died 1987), British hematologist.	0
26 Jun 1909 Science Museum (London)	science	Science Museum (London) The Science Museum (London) is established as an institution in its own right.	0
26 Jun 1936 Focke-Wulf Fw 61	science	Focke-Wulf Fw 61 (technology) Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter, makes its first flight.	0
26 Jun 1939 Julia Polak	science	birth Julia Polak Julia Polak (died 2014), Argentine-born British pathologist and pioneer of tissue engineering.	0
26 Jun 1943 Karl Landsteiner	science	death Karl Landsteiner Karl Landsteiner (born 1868), Austrian-born American Jewish physiologist.	0
26 Jun 1954 Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant	science	Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant (technology) Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the first civilian nuclear power station, is commissioned in the Soviet Union.	0
26 Jun 1974 Universal Product Code	science	Universal Product Code (technology) The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, the first use of barcode technology in American retailing.	0
26 Jun 2000 human genome	science	human genome (biology) 'Rough draft' of the human genome is announced jointly by President of the United States Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.	0

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