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06 Sep 1522
Ferdinand Magellan |
Ferdinand Magellan (exploration) The Vittoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain under the command of Juan Sebastián Elcano, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. It carries the first (dead) examples of the bird-of-paradise ever to be seen in Europe. |
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06 Sep 1618
Great Comet |
Great Comet (astronomy) The Great Comet of 1618 is visible to the naked eye. |
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06 Sep 1649
Robert Dudley |
death Robert Dudley Robert Dudley, English-born navigator (born 1574) |
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06 Sep 1714
Robert Whytt |
birth Robert Whytt Robert Whytt, Scottish physician (died 1766) |
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06 Sep 1749
Benjamin Bell |
birth Benjamin Bell Benjamin Bell, Scottish surgeon (died 1806) |
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06 Sep 1766
John Dalton |
birth John Dalton John Dalton, English chemist and physicist (died 1844) |
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06 Sep 1908
Louis Essen |
birth Louis Essen Louis Essen (died 1997), English physicist, co-developer of the first practical atomic clock. |
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06 Sep 1919
Wilson Greatbatch |
birth Wilson Greatbatch Wilson Greatbatch (died 2011), biomedical engineer. |
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06 Sep 1978
genetically engineered |
genetically engineered (medicine) Production of the first genetically engineered synthetic "human" insulin using E. coli by Arthur Riggs and Keiichi Itakura at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope National Medical Center in collaboration with Herbert Boyer at Genentech is announced in California. |
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06 Sep 1985
Rodney Porter |
death Rodney Porter Rodney Porter (b. 1917), English biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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06 Sep 1998
Penumbral lunar eclipse |
Penumbral lunar eclipse (astronomy and space ) Penumbral lunar eclipse |
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06 Sep 2002
Orvan Hess |
death Orvan Hess Orvan Hess (b. 1906), obstetrician. |
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