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01 Sep 1557
Jacques Cartier |
death Jacques Cartier Jacques Cartier, Breton explorer (born 1491) |
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01 Sep 1596
Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser |
death Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (b. 1540?), Frisian navigator (at sea). |
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01 Sep 1600
Tadeáš Hájek |
death Tadeáš Hájek Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (born 1525) |
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01 Sep 1619
Hans Lippershey |
death Hans Lippershey Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker, credited with inventing the telescope in 1608 (born c. 1570) |
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01 Sep 1621
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī |
death Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, Arab philosopher and astronomer (born 1547) |
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01 Sep 1648
Marin Mersenne |
death Marin Mersenne Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (born 1588) |
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01 Sep 1651
Arthur Dee |
death Arthur Dee Arthur Dee, English physician and alchemist (born 1579) |
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01 Sep 1665
Robert Hooke |
Robert Hooke (microbiology) Robert Hooke's Micrographia published, first applying the term 'cell' to plant tissue, which he discovered first in cork, then in living organisms, using a microscope. |
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01 Sep 1728
Bartram's Garden |
Bartram's Garden (botany) Bartram's Garden, the oldest surviving botanic garden in North America, is established in Philadelphia by John Bartram. |
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01 Sep 1762
Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships |
Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships (mathematics) Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships is established in London, pioneering mutual insurance using a method of actuarial science devised by mathematician James Dodson. |
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01 Sep 1765
Richard Pococke |
death Richard Pococke Richard Pococke, English anthropologist and explorer (born 1704) |
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01 Sep 1784
Jean-François Séguier |
death Jean-François Séguier Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (born 1703) |
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01 Sep 1804
Karl Ludwig Harding |
Karl Ludwig Harding (astronomy and space ) Karl Ludwig Harding discovers the asteroid Juno. |
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01 Sep 1831
Zoological Gardens, Dublin |
Zoological Gardens, Dublin (biology) Zoological Gardens, Dublin, open in Ireland. |
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01 Sep 1845
Cornish |
Cornish (astronomy) October – Cornish mathematician John Couch Adams communicates to James Challis and George Biddell Airy his calculations demonstrating that a body (Neptune) is perturbing the orbit of Uranus. |
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01 Sep 1855
James Patterson |
James Patterson (cartography) Rev. James Patterson presents the Gall orthographic projection for celestial and terrestrial equal-area cartography. |
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01 Sep 1861
Langenaltheim |
Langenaltheim (paleontology) First complete identified skeleton of Archaeopteryx unearthed near Langenaltheim, Germany. |
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01 Sep 1865
John Henry Walsh |
John Henry Walsh (life sciences) John Henry Walsh (writing as 'Stonehenge' in the magazine The Field) gives the first definition of a dog breed standard (for the pointer) based on physical form. |
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01 Sep 1882
Great Comet of 1882 |
Great Comet of 1882 (astronomy) Great Comet of 1882 sighted. |
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01 Sep 1906
yellow fever |
yellow fever (medicine) Last death from yellow fever in the Panama Canal Zone following a mosquito eradication program led by William C. Gorgas. |
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01 Sep 1906
Karl August Folkers |
birth Karl August Folkers Karl August Folkers (died 1997), biochemist. |
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01 Sep 1914
Martha |
Martha (biology and medicine) Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, dies, in the Cincinnati Zoo. |
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01 Sep 1930
Peeter Põld |
death Peeter Põld Peeter Põld (born 1878), Estonian politician and pedagogical scientist. |
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01 Sep 1940
Tizard Mission |
Tizard Mission (other s) November – The Tizard Mission, a British technical and scientific mission, exchanges information on wartime scientific advances with the United States, including radar (in particular a greatly improved cavity magnetron), Frank Whittle's jet engine, the Frisch–Peierls memorandum on feasibility of an atomic bomb and work of the 'Tube Alloys' project on production of enriched uranium. |
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01 Sep 1979
Pioneer 11 |
Pioneer 11 (astronomy and space ) The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km. |
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01 Sep 1981
Pantanal Matogrossense National Park |
Pantanal Matogrossense National Park (biology) Pantanal Matogrossense National Park designated in Brazil. |
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01 Sep 1982
monoclonal antibody |
monoclonal antibody (biology) First report of anti-human monoclonal antibody production. |
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01 Sep 1985
The wreck of the RMS Titanic |
The wreck of the RMS Titanic (exploration) The wreck of the RMS Titanic (1912) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard (WHOI) and Jean-Louis Michel (Ifremer) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr. |
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01 Sep 1985
Dennis Sullivan |
Dennis Sullivan (mathematics) Dennis Sullivan publishes proof of the No wandering domain theorem. |
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01 Sep 1992
SOCKS |
SOCKS (computer science) The SOCKS Internet protocol is made public. |
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01 Sep 1997
Total lunar eclipse |
Total lunar eclipse (astronomy and space ) Total lunar eclipse. |
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