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14 Aug 1502
Trujillo |
Trujillo (exploration) Columbus lands at Trujillo and names the country 'Honduras'. |
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14 Aug 1688
Johann Leonhard Rost |
birth Johann Leonhard Rost Johann Leonhard Rost, German astronomer (died 1727) |
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14 Aug 1777
Hans Christian Ørsted |
birth Hans Christian Ørsted Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist (died 1851) |
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14 Aug 1848
Margaret Lindsay |
birth Margaret Lindsay Margaret Lindsay (died 1915), Irish astronomer. |
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14 Aug 1894
Oliver Lodge |
Oliver Lodge (technology) Oliver Lodge demonstrates radio transmission (of Morse code) in the University of Oxford from the Clarendon Laboratory to the University Museum for the British Association for the Advancement of Science. |
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14 Aug 1909
William Stanley |
death William Stanley William Stanley (born 1829), inventor. |
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14 Aug 1952
Alan Turing |
Alan Turing (biology) Alan Turing's paper "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" is published, putting forward a reaction–diffusion hypothesis of pattern formation, considered a seminal piece of work in morphogenesis. |
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14 Aug 1958
Frédéric Joliot-Curie |
death Frédéric Joliot-Curie Frédéric Joliot-Curie (born 1900), French physicist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935) |
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14 Aug 1971
Stanford prison experiment |
Stanford prison experiment (psychology) Stanford prison experiment. |
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