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01 Oct 1565
Martello tower |
Martello tower (technology) The first Martello tower, the Torra di Mortella, designed by Giovan Giacomo Paleari Fratino (el Fratin), is completed as part of the Genovese defence system at Mortella (Myrtle) Point in Upper Corsica. |
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01 Oct 1604
Wollaton Wagonway |
Wollaton Wagonway (technology) The Wollaton Wagonway, from Strelley, Nottingham, to Wollaton in England, is known to have been completed by this date, being the world's first recorded overland wagonway. It runs for approximately two miles (5 km) and is built by Huntingdon Beaumont for coal haulage. |
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01 Oct 1606
Luís Vaz de Torres |
Luís Vaz de Torres (exploration) Luís Vaz de Torres is the first European to sail through the Torres Strait. |
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01 Oct 1630
Isaac Barrow |
birth Isaac Barrow Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (died 1677) |
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01 Oct 1661
Gérard Desargues |
death Gérard Desargues Gérard Desargues, French geometer (born 1591) |
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01 Oct 1671
Guido Grandi |
birth Guido Grandi Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (died 1742) |
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01 Oct 1675
James Gregory |
death James Gregory James Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer (born 1638) |
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01 Oct 1682
J. J. Becher |
death J. J. Becher J. J. Becher, German physician and chemist (born 1635) |
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01 Oct 1684
Dud Dudley |
death Dud Dudley Dud Dudley, English metallurgist (born 1600?) |
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01 Oct 1722
clockmaking |
clockmaking (technology) In clockmaking, George Graham demonstrates that his experiments, begun in December 1721, with mercurial compensation of the pendulum result in greater accuracy in timekeeping under conditions of variable temperature. |
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01 Oct 1758
Elizabeth Blackwell |
death Elizabeth Blackwell Elizabeth Blackwell, British botanical illustrator (born 1707) |
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01 Oct 1766
Addenbrooke's Hospital |
Addenbrooke's Hospital (medicine) Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, England, completed. |
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01 Oct 1768
Robert Simson |
death Robert Simson Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (born 1687) |
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01 Oct 1795
Robert Bakewell |
death Robert Bakewell Robert Bakewell, English agriculturalist and geneticist (born 1725) |
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01 Oct 1804
William Stokes |
birth William Stokes William Stokes, physician (died 1878) |
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01 Oct 1817
Philomaths |
Philomaths (institutions) Philomaths established secretly by Poles at the Imperial University of Vilnius. |
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01 Oct 1835
Ádám Politzer |
birth Ádám Politzer Ádám Politzer (died 1920), Hungarian otologist. |
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01 Oct 1843
Anna Atkins |
Anna Atkins (publications) Anna Atkins begins publication of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, a collection of contact printed cyanotype photograms of algae which forms the first book illustrated with photographic images. |
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01 Oct 1846
William T. G. Morton |
William T. G. Morton (medicine) Dentist William T. G. Morton becomes the first person publicly to demonstrate the use of diethyl ether as a general anesthetic in what becomes known as the Ether Dome of Massachusetts General Hospital. |
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01 Oct 1847
Maria Mitchell |
Maria Mitchell (astronomy) American astronomer Maria Mitchell discovers comet C/1847 T1; it is independently discovered two days later by Francesco de Vico from Rome. |
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01 Oct 1855
Renkioi temporary hospital |
Renkioi temporary hospital (medicine) The Renkioi temporary hospital, prefabricated in wood to a design by I. K. Brunel, is erected in Turkey to serve Crimean War invalids. |
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01 Oct 1872
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College |
Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (institutions) the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College begins its first academic session |
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01 Oct 1878
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (institutions) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University opens as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in the United States. |
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01 Oct 1881
Charles Darwin |
Charles Darwin (biology) Charles Darwin publishes his last scientific book The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms. |
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01 Oct 1884
Hiram Maxim |
Hiram Maxim (technology) Hiram Maxim first demonstrates the Maxim gun, the first self-powered machine gun. |
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01 Oct 1884
International Meridian Conference |
International Meridian Conference (other s) International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. fixes the Greenwich meridian as the world's prime meridian. |
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01 Oct 1887
Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese |
Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (medicine) Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese founded by Patrick Manson. |
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01 Oct 1890
Yosemite National Park |
Yosemite National Park (biology) Yosemite National Park created in the United States. |
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01 Oct 1891
Eugène Dubois |
Eugène Dubois (paleontology) Eugène Dubois finds the first fragmentary bones of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or 'Java Man', at Trinil on the Solo River. |
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01 Oct 1902
Mountain gorillas |
Mountain gorillas (zoology) First Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) discovered by Captain Robert von Beringe in German East Africa. |
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01 Oct 1903
Frank Nelson Cole |
Frank Nelson Cole (mathematics) Frank Nelson Cole demonstrates that the Mersenne number 2-1, or M67, is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721 * 761,838,257,287. |
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01 Oct 1906
sex reassignment surgery |
sex reassignment surgery (medicine) December – Martha Baer undergoes sex reassignment surgery to become Karl M. Baer in Germany. |
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01 Oct 1910
infrared photographs |
infrared photographs (technology) First publication of infrared photographs, by American optical physicist Robert W. Wood in the Royal Photographic Society's Journal. |
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01 Oct 1911
Solvay Congress |
Solvay Congress (physics) The first Solvay Congress of physicists convenes. |
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01 Oct 1912
Kathleen Ollerenshaw |
birth Kathleen Ollerenshaw Kathleen Ollerenshaw (died 2014), English mathematician. |
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01 Oct 1920
Russian |
Russian (technology) Young Russian physicist Lev Sergeyevich Termen first develops the electronic musical instrument which will become the Theremin. |
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01 Oct 1927
Solvay Conference |
Solvay Conference (physics) The fifth Solvay Conference meets in Brussels to discuss the newly formulated quantum mechanics. Albert Einstein attacks the theories of Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. |
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01 Oct 1939
John V. Atanasoff |
John V. Atanasoff (computer science) John V. Atanasoff with Clifford Berry demonstrate the first prototype Atanasoff–Berry Computer at Iowa State University. |
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01 Oct 1943
Albert Stewart Meek |
death Albert Stewart Meek Albert Stewart Meek (born 1871), English-born Australian ornithologist. |
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01 Oct 1950
Alan Turing |
Alan Turing (computer science) Publication of Alan Turing's paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", seminal in the study of artificial intelligence and presenting the Turing test. |
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01 Oct 1950
Australian |
Australian (medicine) Australian-born British thoracic surgeon Norman Barrett describes the condition which will become known as Barrett's oesophagus. |
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01 Oct 1955
Ultra high frequency |
Ultra high frequency (physics) Ultra high frequency AN/FPS-31 early warning radar developed by Lincoln Laboratory begins operation on Jug Handle Hill at West Bath, Maine. |
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01 Oct 1957
Thalidomide |
Thalidomide (medicine) The drug Thalidomide is launched as a sedative by Grünenthal GmbH. |
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01 Oct 1960
General Conference on Weights and Measures |
General Conference on Weights and Measures (metrology) 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures establishes International System of Units, abbreviated SI from the French name, Le Système international d'unités. |
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01 Oct 1962
J. C. R. Licklider |
J. C. R. Licklider (computer science) J. C. R. Licklider becomes the first head of the computer research program at the United States Department of Defense's ARPA, which he names the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO). |
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01 Oct 1962
light-emitting diode |
light-emitting diode (technology) The first practical visible-spectrum (red) light-emitting diode is developed by Nick Holonyak, Jr., while working at the General Electric Company in Syracuse, New York. |
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01 Oct 1964
Robert Moog |
Robert Moog (technology) Dr. Robert Moog demonstrates his prototype synthesizers. |
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01 Oct 1971
Godfrey Hounsfield |
Godfrey Hounsfield (medicine) Godfrey Hounsfield's invention, X-ray computed tomography, is first used on a patient with a cerebral cyst at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London. |
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01 Oct 1972
International Conference on Computer Communications |
International Conference on Computer Communications (computer science) The First International Conference on Computer Communications is held in Washington, D.C. and hosts the first public demonstration of ARPAnet, a precursor of the Internet. |
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01 Oct 1972
Louis Leakey |
death Louis Leakey Louis Leakey (b. 1903), British paleontologist. |
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01 Oct 1973
public-key cryptography |
public-key cryptography (cryptography) Asymmetric key algorithms for public-key cryptography developed by James H. Ellis, Clifford Cocks and Malcolm Williamson at the United Kingdom Government Communications Headquarters. |
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01 Oct 1978
Janus |
Janus (astronomy and space ) It is first proposed that Janus and Epimetheus are two separate moons of Saturn sharing the same orbit. |
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01 Oct 1991
New Zealand |
New Zealand (conservation) The New Zealand Resource Management Act 1991 comes into effect. |
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01 Oct 1992
Cochrane Centre |
Cochrane Centre (medicine) First Cochrane Centre opens (in the UK) and the first Cochrane Review Groups (Pregnancy & Childbirth and Subfertility) are registered. |
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01 Oct 1994
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews |
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (biology and medicine) First public demonstration of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. |
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01 Oct 1996
deep linking |
deep linking (computer science) The Shetland Times and The Shetland News become involved in a landmark legal case over alleged copyright infringement and deep linking in their websites. |
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01 Oct 2003
crested ibis |
crested ibis (biology) The last native wild crested ibis in Japan dies. |
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