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14 Jul 1728
Vitus Bering |
Vitus Bering (exploration) August 14 – Vitus Bering sails northward from the Kamchatka Peninsula, through the Bering Strait, and rounds Cape Dezhnev. |
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14 Jul 1801
Johannes Peter Müller |
birth Johannes Peter Müller Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (died 1858) |
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14 Jul 1827
Augustin-Jean Fresnel |
death Augustin-Jean Fresnel Augustin-Jean Fresnel (born 1788), physicist. |
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14 Jul 1850
John Gorrie |
John Gorrie (technology) John Gorrie makes the first public demonstration of his ice-making machine, in Apalachicola, Florida. |
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14 Jul 1907
William Perkin |
death William Perkin Sir William Perkin (born 1838), chemist. |
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14 Jul 1932
Fran Jesenko |
death Fran Jesenko Fran Jesenko (born 1875), Slovene botanist and plant geneticist. |
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14 Jul 1933
Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring |
Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring (medicine) Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring enacted in Nazi Germany allowing compulsory sterilization of citizens suffering from a list of alleged genetic disorders. |
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14 Jul 1946
Benjamin Spock |
Benjamin Spock (medicine) Dr. Benjamin Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care is first published in New York; it becomes one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. |
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14 Jul 1960
Jane Goodall |
Jane Goodall (biology) English primatologist Jane Goodall arrives at what will become Gombe Stream National Park in Tanganyika to begin her groundbreaking behavioral study of chimpanzees in the wild. |
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14 Jul 1998
Miroslav Holub |
death Miroslav Holub Miroslav Holub (b. 1923), immunologist and poet. |
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