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Science on the 15th of October in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
15 Oct 1564 Vesalius	science	death Vesalius Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (born 1514)	0
15 Oct 1608 Evangelista Torricelli	science	birth Evangelista Torricelli Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (died 1647)	0
15 Oct 1683 Dublin Philosophical Society	science	Dublin Philosophical Society (institutions) First meeting of the Dublin Philosophical Society, established by William Molyneux.	0
15 Oct 1715 Humphry Ditton	science	death Humphry Ditton Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (born 1675)	0
15 Oct 1765 Gribeauval system	science	Gribeauval system (technology) Gribeauval system for manufacture of cannon introduced in France by royal decree.	0
15 Oct 1819 Desolation Island	science	Desolation Island (exploration) Desolation Island in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic is discovered by Captain William Smith in the Williams.	0
15 Oct 1880 Marie Stopes	science	birth Marie Stopes Marie Stopes (died 1958), English paleobotanist and pioneer of birth control.	0
15 Oct 1905 C. P. Snow	science	birth C. P. Snow C. P. Snow (died 1980), physicist and novelist	0
15 Oct 1915 Theodor Boveri	science	death Theodor Boveri Theodor Boveri (born 1862), German geneticist.	0
15 Oct 1930 E. H. "Chinese" Wilson	science	death E. H. "Chinese" Wilson E. H. "Chinese" Wilson (born 1876), English plant collector.	0
15 Oct 1997 ThrustSSC	science	ThrustSSC (technology) The first supersonic land speed record is set by the ThrustSSC team from the United Kingdom.	0
15 Oct 2003 Shenzhou 5	science	Shenzhou 5 (space exploration) The People's Republic of China launches Shenzhou 5, their first manned space mission.	0
15 Oct 2003 Bertram N. Brockhouse	science	death Bertram N. Brockhouse Bertram N. Brockhouse (b. 1918), physicist.	0

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