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16 Oct 1655
Joseph Solomon Delmedigo |
death Joseph Solomon Delmedigo Rabbi Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Cretan-born peripatetic physician and scientist (born 1591) |
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16 Oct 1708
Albrecht von Haller |
birth Albrecht von Haller Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician and scientist, founder of neurology (died 1777) |
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16 Oct 1714
Giovanni Arduino |
birth Giovanni Arduino Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (died 1795) |
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16 Oct 1737
earthquake |
earthquake (geology) An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.3 strikes offshore of the Kamchatka Peninsula. |
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16 Oct 1793
John Hunter |
death John Hunter John Hunter, Scottish surgeon, pathologist and comparative anatomist (born 1728) |
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16 Oct 1803
Robert Stephenson |
birth Robert Stephenson Robert Stephenson, English railway engineer (died 1859) |
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16 Oct 1843
William Rowan Hamilton |
William Rowan Hamilton (mathematics) William Rowan Hamilton discovers the calculus of quaternions and deduces that they are non-commutative. |
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16 Oct 1900
Henry Acland |
death Henry Acland Henry Acland (born 1815), English physician. |
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16 Oct 1916
Margaret Sanger |
Margaret Sanger (medicine) Margaret Sanger opens a family planning and birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the first of its kind in the United States. Nine days later, she is arrested for breaking a New York state law prohibiting distribution of contraceptives. This same year, she publishes What Every Girl Should Know, providing information about such topics as menstruation and sexuality in adolescents. |
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16 Oct 1937
William Sealy Gosset |
death William Sealy Gosset William Sealy Gosset (born 1876), English statistician. |
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16 Oct 1944
Elizabeth Loftus |
birth Elizabeth Loftus Elizabeth Loftus, American psychologist. |
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16 Oct 2003
gene therapy |
gene therapy (medicine) China becomes the first country to approve the commercial production of a gene therapy. (Nature) |
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