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06 Oct 1510
John Caius |
birth John Caius John Caius, English physician and benefactor (died 1573). |
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06 Oct 1732
Nevil Maskelyne |
birth Nevil Maskelyne Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal (died 1811) |
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06 Oct 1735
Jesse Ramsden |
birth Jesse Ramsden Jesse Ramsden, English scientific instrument maker (died 1800) |
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06 Oct 1783
François Magendie |
birth François Magendie François Magendie, French physiologist (died 1855) |
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06 Oct 1794
Charles Wilkins Short |
birth Charles Wilkins Short Charles Wilkins Short, botanist (died 1863) |
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06 Oct 1799
William Withering |
death William Withering William Withering, English physician, discoverer of digitalis (born 1741) |
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06 Oct 1825
Bernard Germain Étienne |
death Bernard Germain Étienne Bernard Germain Étienne (born 1756), French naturalist. |
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06 Oct 1829
Rainhill Trials |
Rainhill Trials (technology) The Rainhill Trials, a steam locomotive competition, are run in England and won by Stephenson's Rocket. |
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06 Oct 1831
Richard Dedekind |
birth Richard Dedekind Richard Dedekind (died 1916), mathematician. |
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06 Oct 1905
Ferdinand von Richthofen |
death Ferdinand von Richthofen Ferdinand von Richthofen (born 1833), geologist |
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06 Oct 1914
Thor Heyerdahl |
birth Thor Heyerdahl Thor Heyerdahl (died 2002), Norwegian ethnographer and explorer, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition. |
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06 Oct 1957
Ian Jacobs |
birth Ian Jacobs Ian Jacobs, English gynaecological oncologist. |
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06 Oct 1995
51 Pegasi b |
51 Pegasi b (astronomy and space ) 51 Pegasi b: Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence announce in Nature the first definitive detection of an extrasolar planet orbiting an ordinary main sequence star (51 Pegasi). |
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