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26 Sep 1513
Vasco Núñez de Balboa |
Vasco Núñez de Balboa (exploration and cart) Vasco Núñez de Balboa, "silent upon a peak in Darién", first sees what will become known as the Pacific Ocean. |
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26 Sep 1580
Francis Drake |
Francis Drake (exploration) Francis Drake in the Golden Hind sails into Plymouth having completed the second circumnavigation of the world, westabout, begun in 1577. |
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26 Sep 1641
Nehemiah Grew |
birth Nehemiah Grew Nehemiah Grew, English botanist and physician who made some of the early microscopical observations of plants (died 1712) |
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26 Sep 1688
Willem 's Gravesande |
birth Willem 's Gravesande Willem 's Gravesande, Dutch polymath (died 1742) |
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26 Sep 1754
Joseph Proust |
birth Joseph Proust Joseph Proust, French chemist (died 1826) |
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26 Sep 1774
John Chapman |
birth John Chapman John Chapman (died 1845), nurseryman. |
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26 Sep 1793
Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard |
death Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, French mycologist (born c. 1742) |
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26 Sep 1868
August Ferdinand Möbius |
death August Ferdinand Möbius August Ferdinand Möbius (born 1790), mathematician. |
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26 Sep 1874
Oakes Ames |
birth Oakes Ames Oakes Ames (died 1950), botanist |
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26 Sep 1877
Hermann Günther Grassmann |
death Hermann Günther Grassmann Hermann Günther Grassmann (born 1809), German mathematician. |
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26 Sep 1881
Godalming |
Godalming (technology) Godalming in England becomes the first town to have its streets illuminated by electric light (hydroelectrically generated). |
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26 Sep 1886
Archibald Hill |
birth Archibald Hill Archibald Hill, English physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1977) |
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26 Sep 1887
Barnes Wallis |
birth Barnes Wallis Barnes Wallis (died 1979), English aeronautical engineer. |
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26 Sep 1923
John Ertle Oliver |
birth John Ertle Oliver John Ertle Oliver (died 2011), American geophysicist. |
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26 Sep 1938
Alan Andrew Watson |
birth Alan Andrew Watson Alan Andrew Watson, Scottish astrophysicist |
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26 Sep 1940
Louise Johnson |
birth Louise Johnson Louise Johnson (died 2012), British biochemist and protein crystallographer. |
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26 Sep 1983
Baikonur Cosmodrome |
Baikonur Cosmodrome (astronomy and space ) The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown. The escape tower system, attached to the top of the capsule containing the crew and Soyuz spacecraft, fires immediately pulling the crew safe from the vehicle, a few seconds before the rocket explodes, destroying the launch complex. |
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