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04 Oct 1562
Christen Sørensen Longomontanus |
birth Christen Sørensen Longomontanus Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (died 1647) |
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04 Oct 1776
Mariano Lagasca |
birth Mariano Lagasca Mariano Lagasca, Spanish botanist (died 1839) |
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04 Oct 1858
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin |
birth Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (died 1935), Banat-born physicist. |
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04 Oct 1872
Ernest Fourneau |
birth Ernest Fourneau Ernest Fourneau (died 1949), medicinal chemist |
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04 Oct 1873
Dimitrie Pompeiu |
birth Dimitrie Pompeiu Dimitrie Pompeiu (died 1954), mathematician |
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04 Oct 1876
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas |
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (institutions) First classes begin at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. |
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04 Oct 1903
Cyril Stanley Smith |
birth Cyril Stanley Smith Cyril Stanley Smith (died 1992), English-born metallurgist. |
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04 Oct 1916
Vitaly Ginzburg |
birth Vitaly Ginzburg Vitaly Ginzburg (died 2009), Soviet Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences. |
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04 Oct 1918
Adrian Kantrowitz |
birth Adrian Kantrowitz Adrian Kantrowitz (died 2008), cardiac surgeon. |
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04 Oct 1946
Barney Oldfield |
death Barney Oldfield Barney Oldfield (born 1878), automobile racer. |
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04 Oct 1947
Max Planck |
death Max Planck Max Planck (born 1858), German quantum physicist. |
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04 Oct 1951
Henrietta Lacks |
death Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks (born 1921), African American source of the HeLa cell line. |
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04 Oct 2000
Michael Smith |
death Michael Smith Michael Smith (b. 1932), chemist, 1993 Nobel Prize winner |
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04 Oct 2004
SpaceShipOne |
SpaceShipOne (space exploration) SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize after reaching an altitude of over 100 km (62 mi) for the second time in less than five days. |
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