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04 Jul 1564
Pierre Richer de Belleval |
birth Pierre Richer de Belleval Pierre Richer de Belleval, French botanist (died 1632). |
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04 Jul 1566
Stari Most |
Stari Most (civil engineering) Completion of "Stari Most" bridge crossing the Neretva at Mostar by the Ottoman Empire (builder: Mimar Hayruddin). |
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04 Jul 1578
Jean de Chastelet |
birth Jean de Chastelet Jean de Chastelet, Brabantian mining engineer (died c. 1645) |
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04 Jul 1579
Hans Staden |
death Hans Staden Hans Staden, German adventurer (born c. 1525) |
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04 Jul 1586
Guy de La Brosse |
birth Guy de La Brosse Guy de La Brosse, French physician and botanist (died 1641) |
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04 Jul 1590
Giovanni Battista Zupi |
birth Giovanni Battista Zupi Giovanni Battista Zupi, Italian astronomer (died 1650) |
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04 Jul 1660
Edward Lhuyd |
birth Edward Lhuyd Edward Lhuyd, Welsh naturalist (died 1709) |
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04 Jul 1661
Alida Withoos |
birth Alida Withoos Alida Withoos, Dutch botanical artist (died 1730) |
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04 Jul 1665
James Petiver |
birth James Petiver James Petiver, English naturalist and apothecary (died 1718) |
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04 Jul 1675
John Jonston |
death John Jonston John Jonston, Polish naturalist and physician (born 1603) |
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04 Jul 1699
Isaac Newton |
Isaac Newton (exploration) Sir Isaac Newton develops a reflecting quadrant. |
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04 Jul 1788
Moses Harris |
death Moses Harris Moses Harris, English entomologist and engraver (born 1730) |
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04 Jul 1840
Karl Ferdinand von Graefe |
death Karl Ferdinand von Graefe Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (born 1787), surgeon. |
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04 Jul 1845
Thomas Barnardo |
birth Thomas Barnardo Thomas Barnardo (died 1905), physician and philanthropist. |
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04 Jul 1874
Eads Bridge |
Eads Bridge (technology) official opening of Eads Bridge (combined road and rail steel arch) over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, designed by James B. Eads. It is the longest arch bridge in the world at this time, with an overall length of 6,442 feet (1,964 m); the first use of true steel as a primary structural material in a major bridge project; the first built using cantilever support methods exclusively; and the first major project to make use of pneumatic caissons. |
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04 Jul 1881
sphygmomanometer |
sphygmomanometer (medicine) The non-invasive sphygmomanometer, for the measurement of blood pressure, is invented by Samuel Siegfried Karl von Basch. |
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04 Jul 1892
James Dewar |
James Dewar (chemistry) James Dewar invents the Dewar flask. |
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04 Jul 1910
Giovanni Schiaparelli |
death Giovanni Schiaparelli Giovanni Schiaparelli (born 1835), Italian astronomer. |
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04 Jul 1911
Frederick Seitz |
birth Frederick Seitz Frederick Seitz (died 2008), American solid-state physicist. |
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04 Jul 1921
Aron Arthur Moscona |
birth Aron Arthur Moscona Aron Arthur Moscona (died 2009), American developmental biologist. |
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04 Jul 1934
Marie Curie |
death Marie Curie Marie Curie (born 1867), Polish-born French physicist. |
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04 Jul 1941
Frederick Lindemann |
Frederick Lindemann (awards) Frederick Lindemann is raised to the British peerage as Baron Cherwell. |
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04 Jul 1951
William Shockley |
William Shockley (technology) William Shockley announces invention of the junction transistor. |
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04 Jul 1964
Lesch–Nyhan syndrome |
Lesch–Nyhan syndrome (medicine) Lesch–Nyhan syndrome is first described, by Drs Michael Lesch and William Nyhan. |
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04 Jul 1971
Michael S. Hart |
Michael S. Hart (computer science) Michael S. Hart posts the first e-book, a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's mainframe computer, the origin of Project Gutenberg. |
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04 Jul 1971
Sivakumar Veerasamy |
birth Sivakumar Veerasamy Sivakumar Veerasamy, Indian plant geneticist. |
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04 Jul 1975
Mini–mental state examination |
Mini–mental state examination (medicine) Mini–mental state examination (MMSE) or Folstein test introduced to screen for dementia or other cognitive dysfunction. |
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04 Jul 1977
Thorne–Żytkow objects |
Thorne–Żytkow objects (astronomy and space ) Thorne–Żytkow objects, a bizarre hybrid of red supergiants and neutron stars, are first theorised. |
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04 Jul 1997
Mars Pathfinder |
Mars Pathfinder (astronomy and space ) Mars Pathfinder lands on the surface of Mars. |
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04 Jul 1997
J. Z. Young |
death J. Z. Young J. Z. Young (b. 1907), zoologist and neurophysiologist. |
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04 Jul 2002
Laurent Schwartz |
death Laurent Schwartz Laurent Schwartz (b. 1915), mathematician. |
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04 Jul 2005
Deep Impact |
Deep Impact (space exploration) The Deep Impact spacecraft successfully observes the disintegration of its "impactor" section colliding with the comet Tempel 1. A large number of other telescopes also provide data on this event. |
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