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30 Oct 1533
Hernán Cortés |
Hernán Cortés (exploration) The Concepción and San Lázaro, on the instruction of Hernán Cortés, leave Manzanillo to explore the Pacific Ocean. |
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30 Oct 1626
Willebrord Snellius |
death Willebrord Snellius Willebrord Snellius, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, known as Snell's law (born 1580) |
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30 Oct 1895
Gerhard Domagk |
birth Gerhard Domagk Gerhard Domagk (died 1964), German winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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30 Oct 1960
kidney transplantation |
kidney transplantation (medicine) The first kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom is performed by a team led by English surgeon Michael Woodruff at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh between identical twins. |
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30 Oct 1997
ESA |
ESA (astronomy and space ) First successful test flight of the ESA's Ariane 5 expendable launch system. |
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