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Science on the 9th of October in history

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Date	Type	Text
09 Oct 1562 Gabriele Falloppio	science	death Gabriele Falloppio Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and physician (born 1523)	0
09 Oct 1581 Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac	science	birth Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (died 1638)	0
09 Oct 1604 supernova	science	supernova (astronomy) The supernova which becomes known as Kepler's Supernova (SN 1604) is first observed from northern Italy. From 17 October, Johannes Kepler begins a year's observation of it from Prague. As of 2006, this is the last supernova to be observed in the Milky Way, and the last visible by the naked eye until 1987.	0
09 Oct 1623 Ferdinand Verbiest	science	birth Ferdinand Verbiest Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit Sinologist and astronomer (died 1688)	0
09 Oct 1688 Claude Perrault	science	death Claude Perrault Claude Perrault, French architect and physicist (born 1613)	0
09 Oct 1806 Benjamin Banneker	science	death Benjamin Banneker Benjamin Banneker, African-American astronomer and surveyor (born 1731)	0
09 Oct 1833 Eugene Langen	science	birth Eugene Langen Eugene Langen (died 1895), engineer	0
09 Oct 1852 Hermann Emil Fischer	science	birth Hermann Emil Fischer Hermann Emil Fischer (died 1919), German winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.	0
09 Oct 1873 Karl Schwarzschild	science	birth Karl Schwarzschild Karl Schwarzschild (died 1916), astronomer and physicist	0
09 Oct 1879 Max von Laue	science	birth Max von Laue Max von Laue (died 1960), German physicist and winner of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics.	0
09 Oct 1890 Clément Ader	science	Clément Ader (technology) The first brief flight of Clément Ader's steam-powered fixed-wing aircraft Eole takes place in Satory, France. It flies uncontrolled approximately 50 m (160 ft) at a height of 20 cm, the first take-off of a powered airplane solely under its own power.	0
09 Oct 1953 Pope Pius XII	science	Pope Pius XII As part of an extended series of publications on science, Pope Pius XII publishes "The Technician", which instructs scientists to restrict themselves to the study of physical matter and do nothing to undermine the idea of a non-material soul or a Superior Being. "The Technician" is delivered as a papal address on October 9.	0
09 Oct 1988 Felix Wankel	science	death Felix Wankel Felix Wankel (born 1902), German mechanical engineer.	0
09 Oct 1990 Murray Bowen	science	death Murray Bowen Murray Bowen (b. 1913), American psychiatrist and pioneer of family therapy.	0

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