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01 Aug 1539
Francisco de Ulloa |
Francisco de Ulloa (exploration) September – Francisco de Ulloa explores the Gulf of California. |
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01 Aug 1539
Vannoccio Biringuccio |
death Vannoccio Biringuccio Vannoccio Biringuccio, Italian metallurgist (born 1480) |
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01 Aug 1542
Peter Henlein |
death Peter Henlein Peter Henlein, Nuremberg watchmaker (born 1479/80) |
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01 Aug 1549
Jacob Ziegler |
death Jacob Ziegler Jacob Ziegler, German geographer (born c. 1470/1) |
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01 Aug 1599
Cornelis de Houtman |
death Cornelis de Houtman Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (born 1565) |
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01 Aug 1650
John Parkinson |
death John Parkinson John Parkinson, English herbalist and botanist (born 1567) |
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01 Aug 1651
William Dampier |
birth William Dampier William Dampier, English explorer and hydrographic surveyor who circumnavigated the world three times (died 1715) |
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01 Aug 1729
Nicolas Sarabat |
Nicolas Sarabat (astronomy) Fr. Nicolas Sarabat, a professor of mathematics at Marseilles, discovers the Comet of 1729, possibly the largest comet, with the highest apparent magnitude, on record. |
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01 Aug 1732
Mikhail Gvozdev |
Mikhail Gvozdev (exploration) Mikhail Gvozdev with navigator Ivan Fyodorov in the Sviatoi Gavriil make the first known crossing of the Bering Strait, from Cape Dezhnev to Cape Prince of Wales, and explore the Alaskan coast. |
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01 Aug 1744
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |
birth Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French naturalist (died 1829) |
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01 Aug 1774
Joseph Priestley |
Joseph Priestley (chemistry) Joseph Priestley, working at Bowood House, Wiltshire, England, isolates oxygen in the form of a gas, which he calls "dephlogisticated air". |
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01 Aug 1786
Caroline Herschel |
Caroline Herschel (astronomy) Caroline Herschel becomes the first woman to discover a comet. |
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01 Aug 1786
James Rumsey |
James Rumsey (technology) James Rumsey tests his first steamboat in the Potomac river at Shepherdstown, Virginia. |
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01 Aug 1796
William Marsden |
birth William Marsden William Marsden, English surgeon (died 1867) |
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01 Aug 1806
English |
English (exploration) English seal hunter Abraham Bristow discovers the Auckland Islands. |
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01 Aug 1812
Henry Bell |
Henry Bell (technology) Henry Bell's PS Comet begins a passenger service on the River Clyde in Scotland, the first commercially successful steamboat service in Europe. |
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01 Aug 1815
William Smith |
William Smith (earth sciences) William Smith publishes the first national geological map of the United Kingdom, A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland. |
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01 Aug 1818
Maria Mitchell |
birth Maria Mitchell Maria Mitchell (died 1889), American astronomer. |
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01 Aug 1819
René Laennec |
René Laennec (medicine) René Laennec publishes De l’Auscultation Médiate ou Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur in Paris, describing his invention of the stethoscope. |
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01 Aug 1825
wire |
wire (technology) The wire-cable suspension bridge between Tournon-sur-Rhône and Tain-l'Hermitage, designed by Marc Seguin, opens. |
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01 Aug 1835
H. Fox Talbot |
H. Fox Talbot (technology) H. Fox Talbot exposes the world's first known photographic negatives at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, England. |
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01 Aug 1844
Berlin Zoological Garden |
Berlin Zoological Garden (biology) Opening of Berlin Zoological Garden. |
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01 Aug 1845
Potato blight |
Potato blight (biology) September – Previously unknown Potato blight strikes the potato crop in Ireland: start of the Irish Potato Famine. |
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01 Aug 1845
John Franklin |
John Franklin (exploration) John Franklin's expedition with HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to find the Northwest Passage is last seen entering Baffin Bay prior to its mysterious disappearance. |
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01 Aug 1858
aerial photography |
aerial photography (technology) The first aerial photography is carried out by Nadar from a moored balloon in France using the collodion process. |
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01 Aug 1878
Cleopatra's Needle |
Cleopatra's Needle (technology) Cleopatra's Needle is raised onto its base in London. |
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01 Aug 1885
George de Hevesy |
birth George de Hevesy George de Hevesy (died 1966), Hungarian Nobel laureate in chemistry |
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01 Aug 1887
National Institutes of Health |
National Institutes of Health (medicine) The U.S. National Institutes of Health is founded at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, NY, as the Laboratory of Hygiene. |
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01 Aug 1887
Anna Connelly |
Anna Connelly (technology) Anna Connelly patents the fire escape. |
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01 Aug 1889
Walter Gerlach |
birth Walter Gerlach Walter Gerlach (died 1979), German physicist. |
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01 Aug 1896
Nansen's Fram expedition |
Nansen's Fram expedition (exploration) Conclusion of Nansen's Fram expedition. |
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01 Aug 1905
Helen Sawyer Hogg |
birth Helen Sawyer Hogg Helen Sawyer Hogg (died 1993), astronomer |
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01 Aug 1909
Sibyl M. Rock |
birth Sibyl M. Rock Sibyl M. Rock (died 1981), American mathematician. |
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01 Aug 1913
stainless steel |
stainless steel (technology) Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley in Sheffield, England (concurrent with the invention of another type in the United States by Elwood Haynes). |
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01 Aug 1914
Swiss National Park |
Swiss National Park (biology and medicine) Swiss National Park (Parc Naziunal Svizzer) established in the Engadin region of Switzerland. |
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01 Aug 1915
Ada Hitchins |
Ada Hitchins (physics) Ada Hitchins' experimental results indicating that radium is formed by the decay of uranium are published. |
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01 Aug 1936
W. D. Hamilton |
birth W. D. Hamilton W. D. Hamilton (died 2000), English evolutionary biologist, widely recognised as one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century. |
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01 Aug 1952
San Benedicto rock wren |
San Benedicto rock wren (biology) Around 9 o'clock AM, the San Benedicto rock wren goes extinct as its island home is smothered in a massive volcanic eruption. |
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01 Aug 1957
ZETA fusion reactor |
ZETA fusion reactor (physics) ZETA fusion reactor begins operation at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Oxfordshire. |
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01 Aug 1960
Edsger W. Dijkstra |
Edsger W. Dijkstra (computer science) Edsger W. Dijkstra and Jaap A. Zonneveld produce the first (X1) implementation of the ALGOL 60 programming language. |
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01 Aug 1962
J. C. R. Licklider |
J. C. R. Licklider (computer science) J. C. R. Licklider begins to refer to the Intergalactic Computer Network, effectively conceptualizing what will become the Internet. |
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01 Aug 1964
John Ostrom |
John Ostrom (paleontology) John Ostrom identifies remains of the dinosaur Deinonychus in Montana, significant in being a small, agile species closely related to the birds. |
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01 Aug 1970
Otto Heinrich Warburg |
death Otto Heinrich Warburg Otto Heinrich Warburg (b. 1883), German physiologist and winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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01 Aug 1979
eating disorder |
eating disorder (medicine) The eating disorder Bulimia nervosa is first described and named by British psychiatrist Gerald Russell. |
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01 Aug 1983
MIDI 1.0 |
MIDI 1.0 (computer science) MIDI 1.0 specification for a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (originally devised by Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits) published. |
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01 Aug 1989
Asteroid |
Asteroid (astronomy) Asteroid 4769 Castalia is the first asteroid directly imaged, by radar from Arecibo. |
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01 Aug 1993
Cochrane Collaboration |
Cochrane Collaboration (medicine) Formal launch of the Cochrane Collaboration. |
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01 Aug 1996
Tadeusz Reichstein |
death Tadeusz Reichstein Tadeusz Reichstein (b. 1897), Polish-Swiss winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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