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31 Oct 1711
Laura Bassi |
birth Laura Bassi Laura Bassi, Italian scientist (died 1778) |
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31 Oct 1783
Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner |
birth Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner, German chemist (died 1857) |
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31 Oct 1815
Karl Weierstraß |
birth Karl Weierstraß Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (died 1897) |
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31 Oct 1828
Joseph Swan |
birth Joseph Swan Joseph Swan (died 1914), English physicist. |
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31 Oct 1832
Antonio Scarpa |
death Antonio Scarpa Antonio Scarpa (born 1752), anatomist. |
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31 Oct 1833
Johann Friedrich Meckel |
death Johann Friedrich Meckel Johann Friedrich Meckel (born 1781), anatomist. |
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31 Oct 1881
George W. DeLong |
death George W. DeLong George W. DeLong (born 1844), American Arctic explorer. |
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31 Oct 1886
Dom Luís Bridge, Porto |
Dom Luís Bridge, Porto (technology) Opening of Dom Luís Bridge, Porto, a two-hinged double-deck arch bridge across the Douro River in Portugal designed by Téophile Seyrig. Its main span of 172 metres (564 ft) will remain the world's longest in iron. |
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31 Oct 1897
Samuel Haughton |
death Samuel Haughton Samuel Haughton (born 1821), Irish scientific polymath. |
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31 Oct 1905
Harry Harlow |
birth Harry Harlow Harry Harlow (died 1981), psychologist |
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31 Oct 1910
Victor Rothschild |
birth Victor Rothschild Victor Rothschild (died 1990), polymath. |
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31 Oct 1925
John Pople |
birth John Pople John Pople (died 2004), British theoretical chemist; winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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31 Oct 1925
José Ingenieros |
death José Ingenieros José Ingenieros (born 1877), polymath. |
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31 Oct 1926
Narinder Singh Kapany |
birth Narinder Singh Kapany Narinder Singh Kapany, Punjabi-born physicist. |
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31 Oct 1992
Pope John Paul II |
Pope John Paul II (astronomy) Pope John Paul II issues an apology and lifts the edict of the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei. |
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31 Oct 2001
Warren Elliot Henry |
death Warren Elliot Henry Warren Elliot Henry (b. 1909), African American physicist. |
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