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01 Jul 1518
Dancing Plague |
Dancing Plague (medicine) Dancing Plague, a case of dancing mania, breaks out in Strasbourg. |
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01 Jul 1600
astronomer |
astronomer (astronomy) Danish astronomer Longomontanus arrives in Prague, where he works with the Moon orbital theory; he brings the rest of Tycho's astronomical instruments with him. |
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01 Jul 1646
Gottfried Leibniz |
birth Gottfried Leibniz Gottfried Leibniz, German scientist and mathematician (died 1716) |
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01 Jul 1714
Parliament of Great Britain |
Parliament of Great Britain The Parliament of Great Britain offers the Longitude prize to anyone who can solve the problem of accurately determining a ship's longitude. |
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01 Jul 1740
Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein |
birth Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, mineralogist and discoverer of tellurium (died 1825) |
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01 Jul 1751
Antide Janvier |
birth Antide Janvier Antide Janvier, French precision clockmaker (died 1835) |
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01 Jul 1770
Lexell's Comet |
Lexell's Comet (astronomy) Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.015 AU. It is observed by Charles Messier between June 14 and October 3. |
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01 Jul 1770
James Hargreaves |
James Hargreaves (technology) James Hargreaves obtains a British patent for the spinning jenny. |
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01 Jul 1790
George Everest |
birth George Everest George Everest, Welsh surveyor and geographer (died 1866) |
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01 Jul 1801
Eli Whitney |
Eli Whitney (technology) Eli Whitney demonstrates before the United States Congress the advantages of the system of interchangeable parts in the manufacture of firearms. |
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01 Jul 1802
William Hyde Wollaston |
William Hyde Wollaston (chemistry) William Hyde Wollaston notes the discovery of the noble metal palladium. |
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01 Jul 1820
Edwin James |
Edwin James (exploration) Botanist Edwin James becomes the first recorded person to reach the summit of Pikes Peak in Colorado. |
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01 Jul 1837
Godefroy Engelmann |
Godefroy Engelmann (technology) Godefroy Engelmann of Mulhouse patents chromolithography. |
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01 Jul 1844
H. Newell Martin |
birth H. Newell Martin H. Newell Martin (died 1896), British physiologist. |
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01 Jul 1860
Charles Goodyear |
death Charles Goodyear Charles Goodyear (born 1800), inventor of the vulcanization process. |
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01 Jul 1863
Confederate States of America |
Confederate States of America (technology) The tiny Confederate States of America hand-propelled submarine H. L. Hunley is first tested successfully (although thirteen crew – including her inventor Horace Lawson Hunley – are lost in two sinkings later in the year). |
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01 Jul 1874
Sholes and Glidden typewriter |
Sholes and Glidden typewriter (technology) Sholes and Glidden typewriter, with cylindrical platen and QWERTY keyboard, first marketed, in the United States |
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01 Jul 1886
Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich |
death Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German mineralogist and geologist (born 1806) |
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01 Jul 1887
James Blyth |
James Blyth (technology) James Blyth operates the first working wind turbine at Marykirk in Scotland. |
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01 Jul 1915
synchronization gear |
synchronization gear (technology) First use of synchronization gear in aerial warfare. |
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01 Jul 1917
Humphry Osmond |
birth Humphry Osmond Humphry Osmond (died 2004), English-born psychiatrist. |
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01 Jul 1927
Nicole Grasset |
birth Nicole Grasset Nicole Grasset (died 2009), Swiss-French medical virologist and microbiologist-epidemiologist. |
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01 Jul 1929
Gerald Edelman |
birth Gerald Edelman Gerald Edelman, American microbiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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01 Jul 1939
Edward Adelbert Doisy |
Edward Adelbert Doisy (chemistry) Edward Adelbert Doisy of Saint Louis University publishes the chemical structure of vitamin K. |
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01 Jul 1948
Claude E. Shannon |
Claude E. Shannon (computer science) October – Claude E. Shannon publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in Bell System Technical Journal, regarded as a foundation of information theory, introducing the concept of Shannon entropy and adopting the term Bit. |
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01 Jul 1951
Maurice Wilkes |
Maurice Wilkes (computer science) Maurice Wilkes introduces the concept of microprogramming. |
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01 Jul 1951
Niels Krabbe |
birth Niels Krabbe Niels Krabbe, Danish ornithologist. |
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01 Jul 1959
Minamata disease |
Minamata disease (medicine) The medical research group studying Minamata disease comes to the conclusion that mercury is the cause. |
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01 Jul 1960
Robert Burns Woodward |
Robert Burns Woodward (biology) Robert Burns Woodward publishes a total synthesis of chlorophyll. |
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01 Jul 1961
Milgram experiment |
Milgram experiment (psychology) First Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures. |
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01 Jul 1961
Kalpana Chawla |
birth Kalpana Chawla Kalpana Chawla (died 2003), Indian astronaut. |
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01 Jul 1980
Microsoft |
Microsoft (computer science) Microsoft's Bill Gates agrees to create an operating system for the new IBM Personal Computer. In September, David Bradley becomes one of the "original 12" engineers working on the project (under Don Estridge) and is responsible for the ROM BIOS code and for developing the Control-Alt-Delete command. |
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01 Jul 1980
C. P. Snow |
death C. P. Snow C. P. Snow (b. 1905), English physicist and novelist. |
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01 Jul 1983
type I |
type I (biology) Determination of the first sequences of type I and type II keratins and prediction of the α-helical domain structure of intermediate filament proteins. |
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01 Jul 1991
Philip Candelas |
Philip Candelas (mathematics) English physicist Philip Candelas and colleagues show that mirror symmetry could be used to solve problems in enumerative geometry. |
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