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27 Aug 1574
Bartolomeo Eustachi |
death Bartolomeo Eustachi Bartolomeo Eustachi, Italian anatomist (born 1500 or 1514) |
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27 Aug 1783
Jacques Charles |
Jacques Charles (aviation) Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers launch the first hydrogen balloon in Paris. |
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27 Aug 1787
steam-powered craft |
steam-powered craft (technology) Launching a 45-foot (14 m) steam-powered craft on the Delaware River, John Fitch demonstrates the first United States patent for his design. |
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27 Aug 1827
Henry Edwards |
birth Henry Edwards Henry Edwards (died 1891), English-born entomologist and actor. |
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27 Aug 1858
Giuseppe Peano |
birth Giuseppe Peano Giuseppe Peano (died 1932), Italian mathematician. |
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27 Aug 1897
Eduard von Hofmann |
death Eduard von Hofmann Eduard von Hofmann (born 1837), Austrian forensic pathologist. |
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27 Aug 1898
John Hopkinson |
death John Hopkinson John Hopkinson (born 1849), English electrical engineer (killed in climbing accident). |
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27 Aug 1909
Emil Christian Hansen |
death Emil Christian Hansen Emil Christian Hansen (born 1842), fermentation physiologist. |
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27 Aug 1929
Herman Potočnik Noordung |
death Herman Potočnik Noordung Herman Potočnik Noordung (born 1892), Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics. |
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27 Aug 1939
Heinkel He 178 |
Heinkel He 178 (technology) Flying the Heinkel He 178, Erich Warsitz makes the first flight entirely on turbojet power (the HeS 3 jet engine). |
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27 Aug 1956
Calder Hall nuclear power station |
Calder Hall nuclear power station (technology) Calder Hall nuclear power station in England is first connected to the National Grid. This Magnox plant is the world's first nuclear power plant to deliver electricity in commercial quantities. Official opening is on October 17. |
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27 Aug 1958
Ernest Lawrence |
death Ernest Lawrence Ernest Lawrence (born 1901), American physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics 1932) |
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