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Science on the 5th of October in history

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Date	Type	Text
05 Oct 1555 Edward Wotton	science	death Edward Wotton Edward Wotton, English zoologist (born 1492)	0
05 Oct 1714 Kaibara Ekiken	science	death Kaibara Ekiken Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher and botanist (born 1630)	0
05 Oct 1781 Bernhard Bolzano	science	birth Bernhard Bolzano Bernhard Bolzano, mathematician (died 1848)	0
05 Oct 1823 Thomas Wakley	science	Thomas Wakley (medicine) The Lancet founded by Thomas Wakley.	0
05 Oct 1882 Robert Goddard	science	birth Robert Goddard Robert Goddard (died 1945), American rocket scientist.	0
05 Oct 1893 Johns Hopkins Medical School	science	Johns Hopkins Medical School (medicine) Johns Hopkins Medical School opens in the United States.	0
05 Oct 1903 M. King Hubbert	science	birth M. King Hubbert M. King Hubbert (died 1989), geophysicist.	0
05 Oct 1911 Pierre Dansereau	science	birth Pierre Dansereau Pierre Dansereau, French Canadian ecologist.	0
05 Oct 1921 Mahlon Hoagland	science	birth Mahlon Hoagland Mahlon Hoagland (died 2009), American biochemist, discoverer of transfer RNA (tRNA).	0
05 Oct 1931 American	science	American (technology) American aviators Clyde Edward Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., complete the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, from Misawa, Japan, to East Wenatchee, Washington, in 41½ hours.	0
05 Oct 1942 Dorothea Klumpke	science	death Dorothea Klumpke Dorothea Klumpke, American astronomer (born 1861)	0
05 Oct 1948 Julian Huxley	science	Julian Huxley (biology) Delegates to a conference organised by Sir Julian Huxley at Fontainebleau agree to formation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.	0
05 Oct 1973 Cédric Villani	science	birth Cédric Villani Cédric Villani, French mathematician	0
05 Oct 1976 Lars Onsager	science	death Lars Onsager Lars Onsager (b. 1903), Norwegian American chemist.	0
05 Oct 2004 Maurice Wilkins	science	death Maurice Wilkins Maurice Wilkins (b. 1916), Nobel laureate in Physiology for discovering the double helix structure for DNA using X-ray diffraction.	0
05 Oct 2005 Spanish flu	science	Spanish flu (biology) The Spanish flu virus is reconstructed and shown to be closely related to the Avian influenza virus.	0

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