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22 Oct 1511
Erasmus Reinhold |
birth Erasmus Reinhold Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1511) |
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22 Oct 1587
Joachim Jungius |
birth Joachim Jungius Joachim Jungius, German mathematician, logician and philosopher of science (died 1657) |
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22 Oct 1635
Wilhelm Schickard |
death Wilhelm Schickard Wilhelm Schickard, German professor of Hebrew and Astronomy (born 1592) |
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22 Oct 1657
Cassiano dal Pozzo |
death Cassiano dal Pozzo Cassiano dal Pozzo, Italian scholar and patron (born 1588) |
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22 Oct 1658
Charles Bouvard |
death Charles Bouvard Charles Bouvard, French herbalist (born 1572) |
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22 Oct 1708
Frederic Louis Norden |
birth Frederic Louis Norden Frederic Louis Norden, Danish explorer (died 1742) |
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22 Oct 1797
André-Jacques Garnerin |
André-Jacques Garnerin (technology) André-Jacques Garnerin carries out the first descent using a frameless parachute, a 980 m (3,200 feet) drop from a balloon in Paris. |
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22 Oct 1879
Thomas Edison |
Thomas Edison (technology) Thomas Edison successfully tests a carbon filament thread in an incandescent light bulb. |
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22 Oct 1895
Rolf Nevanlinna |
birth Rolf Nevanlinna Rolf Nevanlinna (died 1980), Finnish mathematician. |
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22 Oct 1905
Karl Guthe Jansky |
birth Karl Guthe Jansky Karl Guthe Jansky (died 1950), physicist |
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22 Oct 1905
Albert Whitford |
birth Albert Whitford Albert Whitford (died 2002), astronomer |
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22 Oct 1925
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld |
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (technology) Julius Edgar Lilienfeld files the first patent for a form of field-effect transistor. |
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22 Oct 1985
Thomas Townsend Brown |
death Thomas Townsend Brown Thomas Townsend Brown (b. 1905), American inventor. |
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22 Oct 1986
Albert Szent-Györgyi |
death Albert Szent-Györgyi Albert Szent-Györgyi (b. 1893), Hungarian physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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