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19 Aug 1662
Blaise Pascal |
death Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (born 1623) |
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19 Aug 1736
Erland Samuel Bring |
birth Erland Samuel Bring Erland Samuel Bring, Swedish mathematician (died 1798) |
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19 Aug 1812
War of 1812 |
War of 1812 (technology) War of 1812: USS Constitution defeats the British frigate Guerrière off the coast of Nova Scotia. British shot is said to have bounced off Constitution's sides, earning her the nickname "Old Ironsides". |
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19 Aug 1819
James Watt |
death James Watt James Watt (born 1736), mathematician and engineer. |
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19 Aug 1830
Lothar Meyer |
birth Lothar Meyer Lothar Meyer (died 1895), chemist. |
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19 Aug 1858
Ellen Willmott |
birth Ellen Willmott Ellen Willmott (died 1934), English horticulturist. |
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19 Aug 1871
Orville Wright |
birth Orville Wright Orville Wright (died 1948), American pioneer aviator. |
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19 Aug 1906
Philo T. Farnsworth |
birth Philo T. Farnsworth Philo T. Farnsworth (died 1971), television pioneer. |
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19 Aug 1925
Frederic Richards |
birth Frederic Richards Frederic Richards (died 2009), American biochemist and biophysicist known for solving the crystal structure of the ribonuclease S enzyme in 1967 and for defining the concept of solvent-accessible surface. |
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19 Aug 1939
Alan Baker |
birth Alan Baker Alan Baker, English mathematician. |
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19 Aug 1960
Sputnik program |
Sputnik program (astronomy and space ) Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 5 with the dogs Belka and Strelka, forty mice, two rats and a variety of plants. The spacecraft will return to earth the next day and all animals will be recovered safely. |
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19 Aug 1994
Linus Pauling |
death Linus Pauling Linus Pauling (b. 1901), American chemist. |
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