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16 Jul 1678
Jakob Hermann |
birth Jakob Hermann Jakob Hermann, mathematician (died 1733) |
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16 Jul 1773
Nils Rosén von Rosenstein |
death Nils Rosén von Rosenstein Nils Rosén von Rosenstein, Swedish pediatrician (born 1706) |
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16 Jul 1896
Otmar von Verschuer |
birth Otmar von Verschuer Otmar von Verschuer (died 1969), German eugenicist. |
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16 Jul 1910
David Lack |
birth David Lack David Lack (died 1973), ornithologist. |
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16 Jul 1918
Samuel Victor Perry |
birth Samuel Victor Perry Samuel Victor Perry (died 2009), English biochemist who was a pioneer in the field of muscle biochemistry. |
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16 Jul 1923
Sydney Mary Thompson |
death Sydney Mary Thompson Sydney Mary Thompson (born 1847), geologist and botanist. |
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16 Jul 1935
parking meter |
parking meter (technology) The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City to a design by Holger George Thuesen and Gerald A. Hale patented by Carl Magee. |
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16 Jul 1994
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 |
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (astronomy and space ) July 22 – The fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter |
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16 Jul 1995
Amazon.com |
Amazon.com (computer science) Amazon.com, incorporated a year earlier by Jeff Bezos in Washington (state) as an online bookstore, sells its first book, Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought. |