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12 Aug 1681
Vitus Bering |
birth Vitus Bering Vitus Bering, Danish explorer (died 1741) |
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12 Aug 1730
Edmé-Louis Daubenton |
birth Edmé-Louis Daubenton Edmé-Louis Daubenton, French naturalist (died 1785) |
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12 Aug 1812
Middleton Railway |
Middleton Railway (technology) The Middleton Railway, serving coal pits at Leeds in England, becomes the first to use steam locomotives successfully in regular service. The first locomotive, Salamanca, is also the first to use two cylinders and has a rack railway mechanism devised by John Blenkinsop and built by Matthew Murray. |
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12 Aug 1848
George Stephenson |
death George Stephenson George Stephenson (born 1781), English locomotive engineer. |
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12 Aug 1857
William Conybeare |
death William Conybeare William Conybeare (born 1787), English geologist. |
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12 Aug 1865
William Jackson Hooker |
death William Jackson Hooker Sir William Jackson Hooker (born 1785), English botanist. |
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12 Aug 1877
American |
American (astronomy) American astronomer Asaph Hall discoversDeimos, the smaller of the two moons of Mars. On August 18, he discovers the larger, Phobos. |
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12 Aug 1883
quagga |
quagga (zoology) The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam. |
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12 Aug 1897
Otto Struve |
birth Otto Struve Otto Struve (died 1963), astronomer. |
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12 Aug 1910
Florence Nightingale |
death Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale (born 1820), English nurse. |
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12 Aug 1920
Hermann Struve |
death Hermann Struve Hermann Struve, Russian-born astronomer (born 1854). |
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12 Aug 1942
Sabina Spielrein |
death Sabina Spielrein Sabina Spielrein, Russian psychoanalyst, in Zmievskaya Balka massacre (born 1885) |
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12 Aug 1955
James B. Sumner |
death James B. Sumner James B. Sumner (born 1887), American winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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12 Aug 1960
Project Echo |
Project Echo (astronomy and space ) First experimental Project Echo passive communications satellite goes into orbit. |
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12 Aug 1977
NASA |
NASA (astronomy and space ) The NASA Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its first test free-flight from the back of a jetliner. |
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12 Aug 1981
IBM Personal Computer |
IBM Personal Computer (computer science) The IBM Personal Computer is released. |
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12 Aug 1989
William Bradford Shockley |
death William Bradford Shockley William Bradford Shockley (born 1910), physicist. |
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12 Aug 1990
Sue |
Sue (paleontology) "Sue", the best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found, is discovered in South Dakota. |
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12 Aug 1996
Victor Ambartsumian |
death Victor Ambartsumian Victor Ambartsumian (b. 1908), Soviet Armenian theoretical astrophysicist. |
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12 Aug 2004
John Clark |
death John Clark John Clark (b. 1951), head of the Roslin Institute and part of the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep. |
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