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Science on the 23rd of October in history

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Date	Type	Text
23 Oct 1760 Hanaoka Seishū	science	birth Hanaoka Seishū Hanaoka Seishū, Japanese surgeon (died 1835)	0
23 Oct 1769 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot	science	Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (technology) Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrates a steam-powered artillery tractor (or 'automobile') in France (see drawing).	0
23 Oct 1814 Joseph Carpue	science	Joseph Carpue (medicine) Joseph Carpue performs plastic surgery on the nose.	0
23 Oct 1837 Moritz Kaposi	science	birth Moritz Kaposi Moritz Kaposi (died 1902), dermatologist.	0
23 Oct 1852 Francis Guthrie	science	Francis Guthrie (mathematics) Francis Guthrie poses the four colour problem to Augustus De Morgan.	0
23 Oct 1868 Frederick W. Lanchester	science	birth Frederick W. Lanchester Frederick W. Lanchester (died 1946), automotive engineer.	0
23 Oct 1870 George Newman	science	birth George Newman George Newman (died 1948), English public health physician.	0
23 Oct 1875 Gilbert N. Lewis	science	birth Gilbert N. Lewis Gilbert N. Lewis (died 1946), American chemist; first to isolate deuterium	0
23 Oct 1885 Jan Czochralski	science	birth Jan Czochralski Jan Czochralski (died 1953), Polish discoverer of the Czochralski process for growing crystals	0
23 Oct 1893 Ernst Öpik	science	birth Ernst Öpik Ernst Öpik (died 1985), Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist.	0
23 Oct 1895 Hans Ferdinand Mayer	science	birth Hans Ferdinand Mayer Hans Ferdinand Mayer (died 1980), German physicist.	0
23 Oct 1905 Felix Bloch	science	birth Felix Bloch Felix Bloch (died 1983), physicist, Nobel laureate	0
23 Oct 1914 Manifesto of the Ninety-Three	science	Manifesto of the Ninety-Three (other s) Manifesto of the Ninety-Three proclaimed in Germany.	0
23 Oct 1921 John Boyd Dunlop	science	death John Boyd Dunlop John Boyd Dunlop (born 1840), inventor.	0
23 Oct 1986 Edward Adelbert Doisy	science	death Edward Adelbert Doisy Edward Adelbert Doisy (b. 1893), American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.	0
23 Oct 1997 Helen Wright Greuter	science	death Helen Wright Greuter Helen Wright Greuter (b. 1914), historian of astronomy.	0
23 Oct 2001 Apple Computer	science	Apple Computer (computer science) Apple Computer unveil the first generation iPod portable media player.	0

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