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09 Aug 1592
English |
English (exploration) English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, probably discovers the Falkland Islands. |
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09 Aug 1611
John Blagrave |
death John Blagrave John Blagrave, English mathematician (born c.1561) |
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09 Aug 1632
Leiden University |
Leiden University (astronomy) Leiden University in the Dutch Republic resolves to erect the world's first official observatory. |
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09 Aug 1757
Thomas Telford |
birth Thomas Telford Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (died 1834) |
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09 Aug 1796
Wearmouth Bridge |
Wearmouth Bridge (technology) Opening to traffic of the Wearmouth Bridge in England, designed by Thomas Paine in cast iron. The second in this material built after that at Ironbridge, but over twice as long, its span of 237 feet (72 m) makes it the world's longest single-span vehicular bridge extant at this date. |
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09 Aug 1805
Zebulon Pike |
Zebulon Pike (exploration) Zebulon Pike leaves St. Louis to explore the headwaters of the Mississippi River. |
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09 Aug 1861
Dorothea Klumpke |
birth Dorothea Klumpke Dorothea Klumpke (died 1942), American astronomer. |
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09 Aug 1899
Edward Frankland |
death Edward Frankland Edward Frankland (born 1825), English chemist. |
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09 Aug 1911
William A. Fowler |
birth William A. Fowler William A. Fowler (died 1995), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
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09 Aug 1932
John Charles Fields |
death John Charles Fields John Charles Fields (born 1863), Canadian mathematician. |
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09 Aug 1955
Gilbert Plass |
Gilbert Plass (climatology) Gilbert Plass submits his seminal article "The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change". |
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09 Aug 1996
Frank Whittle |
death Frank Whittle Sir Frank Whittle (b. 1907), English aeronautical engineer. |
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09 Aug 2001
Alec Skempton |
death Alec Skempton Sir Alec Skempton (b. 1914), English pioneer of soil science and engineering historian. |
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09 Aug 2006
James Van Allen |
death James Van Allen James Van Allen (b. 1914), space scientist. |
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