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Science on the 13th of September in history

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Date	Type	Text
13 Sep 1630 Olof Rudbeck	science	birth Olof Rudbeck Olof Rudbeck, Swedish physiologist (died 1702)	0
13 Sep 1845 Michael Faraday	science	Michael Faraday (physics) Michael Faraday discovers that an intense magnetic field can rotate the plane of polarized light.	0
13 Sep 1848 Vermont	science	Vermont (medicine) Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3-foot-plus (1 m) iron rod being driven through his head, providing a demonstration of the effects of damage to the brain's frontal lobe.	0
13 Sep 1866 Arthur Pollen	science	birth Arthur Pollen Arthur Pollen (died 1937), inventor	0
13 Sep 1877 Wilhelm Filchner	science	birth Wilhelm Filchner Wilhelm Filchner (died 1957), German explorer.	0
13 Sep 1878 Matilde Moisant	science	birth Matilde Moisant Matilde Moisant, American pilot (died 1964)	0
13 Sep 1917 Technicolor	science	Technicolor (technology) Release in the United States of the first film made in Technicolor System 1, a two-color process, The Gulf Between.	0
13 Sep 1923 Miroslav Holub	science	birth Miroslav Holub Miroslav Holub (died 1998), Czech immunologist and poet.	0
13 Sep 1956 hard disk drive	science	hard disk drive (computer science) The hard disk drive is invented by an IBM team led by Reynold B. Johnson.	0
13 Sep 1995 A. E. Wilder-Smith	science	death A. E. Wilder-Smith A. E. Wilder-Smith (b. 1915), British organic chemist.	0
13 Sep 2004 European Southern Observatory	science	European Southern Observatory (astronomy) Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announce images that appear to show a planet orbiting a brown dwarf about 230 light-years away. The system is believed to be only around 8 million years old.	0

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