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08 Aug 1551
Fray Tomás de Berlanga |
death Fray Tomás de Berlanga Fray Tomás de Berlanga, Spanish Bishop of Panama and discoverer of the Galápagos Islands (born 1487) |
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08 Aug 1553
Girolamo Fracastoro |
death Girolamo Fracastoro Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478) |
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08 Aug 1555
Oronce Finé |
death Oronce Finé Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (born 1494) |
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08 Aug 1576
Tycho Brahe |
Tycho Brahe (astronomy) Work begins on Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory on Hven in Øresund. |
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08 Aug 1585
English |
English (exploration) English explorer John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in Baffin Island in his quest for the Northwest Passage. |
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08 Aug 1602
Gilles de Roberval |
birth Gilles de Roberval Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (died 1675) |
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08 Aug 1709
Hot air balloon |
Hot air balloon (technology) Hot air balloon of Bartholome de Gusmão flies in Portugal. |
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08 Aug 1709
Johann Georg Gmelin |
birth Johann Georg Gmelin Johann Georg Gmelin, German botanist (died 1755) |
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08 Aug 1747
Mårten Triewald |
death Mårten Triewald Mårten Triewald, Swedish mechanical engineer (born 1691) |
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08 Aug 1748
Johann Friedrich Gmelin |
birth Johann Friedrich Gmelin Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (died 1804) |
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08 Aug 1793
French Academy of Sciences |
French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences is among the academies suppressed by the National Convention. |
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08 Aug 1828
Carl Peter Thunberg |
death Carl Peter Thunberg Carl Peter Thunberg (born 1743), Swedish botanist. |
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08 Aug 1846
James Challis |
James Challis (astronomy) Neptune observed but not recognised by James Challis. |
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08 Aug 1857
Henry Fairfield Osborn |
birth Henry Fairfield Osborn Henry Fairfield Osborn (died 1935), American paleontologist. |
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08 Aug 1902
Paul Dirac |
birth Paul Dirac Paul Dirac (died 1984), English physicist. |
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08 Aug 1919
Ernst Haeckel |
death Ernst Haeckel Ernst Haeckel (born 1834), zoologist. |
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08 Aug 1929
German |
German (aviation) The German airship Graf Zeppelin makes a round-the-world flight. |
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08 Aug 1959
Min Chueh Chang |
Min Chueh Chang (biology) Min Chueh Chang reports the first mammals, a litter of rabbits, grown from ova having undergone in vitro fertilisation and transferred to a surrogate mother. |
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08 Aug 1969
Otmar von Verschuer |
death Otmar von Verschuer Otmar von Verschuer (born 1896), German eugenicist. |
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08 Aug 1974
Manjul Bhargava |
birth Manjul Bhargava Manjul Bhargava, Canadian-born mathematician |
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08 Aug 1975
Wallace Smith Broecker |
Wallace Smith Broecker (climatology) The term global warming is probably first used in its modern sense by Wallace Smith Broecker. |
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08 Aug 1998
Penumbral lunar eclipse |
Penumbral lunar eclipse (astronomy and space ) Penumbral lunar eclipse |
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