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17 Aug 1673
Regnier de Graaf |
death Regnier de Graaf Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist who discovered the ovarian follicles (born 1641) |
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17 Aug 1699
Bernard de Jussieu |
birth Bernard de Jussieu Bernard de Jussieu, French botanist (died 1777) |
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17 Aug 1743
Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann |
birth Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, German geographer and zoologist (died 1815) |
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17 Aug 1771
Edinburgh |
Edinburgh (exploration) Edinburgh botanist James Robertson makes the first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis in Scotland. |
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17 Aug 1798
Thomas Hodgkin |
birth Thomas Hodgkin Thomas Hodgkin, English physician (died 1866) |
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17 Aug 1807
Robert Fulton |
Robert Fulton (technology) Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat makes her first trip from New York to Albany. |
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17 Aug 1843
Alexandre Lacassagne |
birth Alexandre Lacassagne Alexandre Lacassagne (died 1924), French forensic scientist. |
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17 Aug 1880
Paul Kammerer |
birth Paul Kammerer Paul Kammerer (died 1926), Austrian Lamarckian biologist. |
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17 Aug 1886
Aleksandr Butlerov |
death Aleksandr Butlerov Aleksandr Butlerov, Russian chemist (born 1828) |
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17 Aug 1893
Wilhelm Maybach |
Wilhelm Maybach (technology) Wilhelm Maybach patents the spray nozzle carburetor in France. |
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17 Aug 1904
Cornelis Simon Meijer |
birth Cornelis Simon Meijer Cornelis Simon Meijer (died 1974), Dutch mathematician. |
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17 Aug 1969
Otto Stern |
death Otto Stern Otto Stern (born 1888), German physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1943. |
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17 Aug 1970
Venera program |
Venera program (astronomy and space ) Venera program: Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another planet. |
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17 Aug 1999
Turkey |
Turkey (geology) A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes northwestern Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000. |
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