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12 Oct 1773
insane asylum |
insane asylum (medicine) North America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Williamsburg, Virginia. |
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12 Oct 1859
Robert Stephenson |
death Robert Stephenson Robert Stephenson (born 1803), English railway engineer. |
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12 Oct 1862
Theodor Boveri |
birth Theodor Boveri Theodor Boveri (died 1915), German geneticist |
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12 Oct 1926
Ruth L. Kirschstein |
birth Ruth L. Kirschstein Ruth L. Kirschstein (died 2009), American pathologist and science administrator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). |
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12 Oct 1928
iron lung |
iron lung (medicine) An 'iron lung' medical ventilator designed by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw, Jr., is used for the first time, at Boston Children's Hospital in the United States for treatment of poliomyelitis. |
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12 Oct 1931
Ole-Johan Dahl |
birth Ole-Johan Dahl Ole-Johan Dahl (died 2002), Norwegian computer scientist, pioneer of object-oriented programming. |
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12 Oct 1964
Voskhod 1 |
Voskhod 1 (astronomy and space ) The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits (the crew wouldn't fit in the space capsule otherwise). |
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12 Oct 1965
Paul Hermann Müller |
death Paul Hermann Müller Paul Hermann Müller (born 1899), Swiss chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948. |
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12 Oct 1967
Desmond Morris |
Desmond Morris (anthropology) Desmond Morris publishes The Naked Ape. |
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12 Oct 1994
NASA |
NASA (astronomy and space ) NASA loses contact with the Magellan spacecraft after a successful mission. The probe crashes into Venus shortly after. |
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