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15 Sep 1580
Friedrich Risner |
death Friedrich Risner Friedrich Risner, German mathematician (born c. 1533) |
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15 Sep 1596
Leonhard Rauwolf |
death Leonhard Rauwolf Leonhard Rauwolf (b. either 1535 or 1540), German botanist and physician. |
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15 Sep 1603
John Jonston |
birth John Jonston John Jonston, Polish naturalist and physician (died 1675) |
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15 Sep 1787
Guillaume-Henri Dufour |
birth Guillaume-Henri Dufour Guillaume-Henri Dufour (died 1875), Swiss engineer et topographer. |
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15 Sep 1828
Aleksandr Butlerov |
birth Aleksandr Butlerov Aleksandr Butlerov (died 1886), Russian chemist. |
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15 Sep 1859
Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
death Isambard Kingdom Brunel Isambard Kingdom Brunel (born 1806), British civil engineer. |
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15 Sep 1873
International Meteorological Organization |
International Meteorological Organization (meteorology) agreement for establishment of the International Meteorological Organization |
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15 Sep 1873
Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko |
death Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko (born 1844), naturalist |
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15 Sep 1929
Murray Gell-Mann |
birth Murray Gell-Mann Murray Gell-Mann, American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
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15 Sep 1947
Annie Maunder |
death Annie Maunder Annie Maunder (born 1868), Anglo Irish astronomer. |
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15 Sep 1959
Luna 3 |
Luna 3 (astronomy and space ) Russian probe Luna 3 sends back first photos of the far side of Earth's Moon. |
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15 Sep 1968
Zond program |
Zond program (space exploration) Zond program: Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 becomes the first vehicle to circle the Moon (September 18) and return to splashdown on Earth. It also carries the first living organisms to circle the Moon, including two Russian tortoises, Piophila, mealworms, plants and bacteria. |
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15 Sep 1978
Willy Messerschmitt |
death Willy Messerschmitt Willy Messerschmitt (b. 1898), German aircraft engineer. |
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15 Sep 1997
domain name |
domain name (computer science) The domain name for the web search engine Google is registered. |
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