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05 Aug 1729
Thomas Newcomen |
death Thomas Newcomen Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (born 1664) |
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05 Aug 1802
Niels Henrik Abel |
birth Niels Henrik Abel Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (died 1829) |
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05 Aug 1834
Ewald Hering |
birth Ewald Hering Ewald Hering (died 1918), physiologist. |
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05 Aug 1835
Comet Halley |
Comet Halley (astronomy) First sighting of the return of Comet Halley by Father Dominique Dumouchel, director of the Collegio Romano at the Vatican. It is next seen on August 21 by Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve at the Dorpat Observatory. John Herschel had been expected to find the comet first, as he was at the time in South Africa with his 20 ft focal length reflector – at this time the largest telescope in the world. He finally observes it in October and watches until it reaches perihelion November 16. It reappears in January 1836, and Herschel will be the last person to observe it in May. |
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05 Aug 1884
Ludwik Hirszfeld |
birth Ludwik Hirszfeld Ludwik Hirszfeld (died 1954), Polish microbiologist and serologist. |
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05 Aug 1893
Sydney Camm |
birth Sydney Camm Sydney Camm (died 1966), English aircraft designer. |
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05 Aug 1904
Kenneth V. Thimann |
birth Kenneth V. Thimann Kenneth V. Thimann (died 1997), English-American plant physiologist and microbiologist known for his studies of plant hormones. |
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05 Aug 1930
Neil Armstrong |
birth Neil Armstrong Neil Armstrong (died 2012), astronaut, first person to walk on the Moon. |
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05 Aug 1949
Ambato earthquake |
Ambato earthquake (earth sciences) Ambato earthquake in Ecuador, measuring 6.8 on the Richter magnitude scale. |
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05 Aug 1949
Ernest Fourneau |
death Ernest Fourneau Ernest Fourneau (born 1872), French medicinal chemist. |
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