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18 Sep 1502
Costa Rica |
Costa Rica (exploration) Columbus lands in Costa Rica. |
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18 Sep 1752
Adrien-Marie Legendre |
birth Adrien-Marie Legendre Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (died 1833) |
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18 Sep 1783
Leonhard Euler |
death Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (born 1707) |
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18 Sep 1817
William Charles Wells |
death William Charles Wells William Charles Wells (born 1757), American physician. |
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18 Sep 1819
Léon Foucault |
birth Léon Foucault Léon Foucault (died 1868), physicist. |
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18 Sep 1886
Sampson Gamgee |
death Sampson Gamgee Sampson Gamgee, English surgeon (born 1828). |
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18 Sep 1896
Hippolyte Fizeau |
death Hippolyte Fizeau Hippolyte Fizeau (born 1819), physicist. |
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18 Sep 1932
Nikolai Rukavishnikov |
birth Nikolai Rukavishnikov Nikolai Rukavishnikov (died 2002), Russian cosmonaut. |
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18 Sep 1951
John Clark |
birth John Clark John Clark (died 2004), English molecular biologist. |
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