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01 Nov 1520
Ferdinand Magellan |
Ferdinand Magellan (exploration) Ferdinand Magellan's fleet makes the first passage of the Strait of Magellan and he names the Pacific Ocean. |
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01 Nov 1554
English |
English (exploration) English captain John Lok voyages to Guinea. |
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01 Nov 1554
Jakob Christmann |
birth Jakob Christmann Jakob Christmann, German orientalist and astronomer (died 1613) |
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01 Nov 1558
Thomas Gresham |
Thomas Gresham (economics) Thomas Gresham states Gresham's law. |
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01 Nov 1592
Guest stars |
Guest stars (astronomy) December – Appearance of the Guest stars observed by Korean astronomers. |
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01 Nov 1600
John Ogilby |
birth John Ogilby John Ogilby, Scottish cartographer (died 1676) |
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01 Nov 1615
Edward Wright |
death Edward Wright Edward Wright, English mathematician (born 1561) |
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01 Nov 1638
James Gregory |
birth James Gregory James Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer (died 1675) |
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01 Nov 1657
John French |
death John French John French, English physician and chemist (born c. 1616) |
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01 Nov 1698
HMS Paramour |
HMS Paramour (exploration) HMS Paramour sets sail under the command of Edmond Halley on the first purely scientific voyage by an English naval vessel, to investigate magnetic declination. |
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01 Nov 1698
astronomer |
astronomer Tani Jinzan, astronomer and calendar scholar, observes a fire destroy Tosa in Japan at the same time as a Leonid meteor shower, taking it as evidence to reinforce belief in the "Theory of Areas". |
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01 Nov 1714
John Radcliffe |
death John Radcliffe John Radcliffe, English physician and benefactor (born 1652) |
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01 Nov 1715
Shibukawa Shunkai |
death Shibukawa Shunkai Shibukawa Shunkai, Japanese scholar and astronomer (born 1637) |
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01 Nov 1748
Aleksei Chirikov |
death Aleksei Chirikov Aleksei Chirikov, Russian explorer (born 1703) |
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01 Nov 1755
earthquake |
earthquake (earth sciences) An earthquake in Lisbon kills 30,000 inhabitants. |
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01 Nov 1774
Charles Bell |
birth Charles Bell Charles Bell (died 1842), anatomist. |
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01 Nov 1783
Carl Linnaeus the Younger |
death Carl Linnaeus the Younger Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish naturalist (born 1741 ) |
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01 Nov 1848
medical school |
medical school (medicine) The first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School, opens in Boston, Massachusetts. |
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01 Nov 1854
Florence Nightingale |
Florence Nightingale (medicine) Florence Nightingale and her team of trained volunteer nurses arrive at Selimiye Barracks in Scutari in the Ottoman Empire to care for British Army troops invalided from the Crimean War. |
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01 Nov 1857
John Joly |
birth John Joly John Joly (died 1933), Anglo-Irish physicist. |
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01 Nov 1858
Ludwig Struve |
birth Ludwig Struve Ludwig Struve (died 1920), Russian astronomer. |
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01 Nov 1870
United States |
United States (meteorology) In the United States, the newly created Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast: "High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee... and along the Lakes". |
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01 Nov 1887
G. Stanley Hall |
G. Stanley Hall (psychology) G. Stanley Hall founds The American Journal of Psychology. |
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01 Nov 1888
Nikolai Przhevalsky |
death Nikolai Przhevalsky Nikolai Przhevalsky (born 1839), explorer. |
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01 Nov 1915
Albert Einstein |
Albert Einstein (physics) Albert Einstein abandons his hole argument for general relativity. |
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01 Nov 1929
Vladimir Zworykin |
Vladimir Zworykin (communications) Vladimir Zworykin takes out a patent for color television. |
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01 Nov 1933
Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri |
birth Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, Bengali-born mathematician. |
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01 Nov 1939
Physicist |
Physicist (technology) Physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer writes the Oslo Report on German weapons systems and passes it to the British Secret Intelligence Service. |
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01 Nov 1941
AI Mk. VIII radar |
AI Mk. VIII radar (technology) Prototype AI Mk. VIII radar, the first operational microwave-frequency Airborne Interception radar, introduced by the British Royal Air Force. |
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01 Nov 1947
AK-47 |
AK-47 (technology) Prototype AK-47 selective-fire, gas-operated assault rifle produced in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. |
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01 Nov 1950
Robert B. Laughlin |
birth Robert B. Laughlin Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist, Nobel prize in physics 1998. |
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01 Nov 1952
Nuclear testing |
Nuclear testing (physics) Nuclear testing: Operation Ivy – The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen device, codenamed "Ivy Mike" ["m" for megaton], at Eniwetok island in the Bikini Atoll located in the Pacific Ocean. The elements einsteinium and fermium are discovered in the fallout. |
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01 Nov 1956
obesity hypoventilation syndrome |
obesity hypoventilation syndrome (medicine) The classic definition of obesity hypoventilation syndrome is published. |
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01 Nov 1962
John Charnley |
John Charnley (medicine) English orthopedic surgeon John Charnley makes the first successful whole hip replacement operation using a high molecular weight polyethylene (HMWP) socket, at Wrightington Hospital, Wigan. |
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01 Nov 1963
Arecibo Observatory |
Arecibo Observatory (astronomy and space ) The Arecibo Observatory, with the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, officially opens in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. |
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01 Nov 1966
Leonids |
Leonids (astronomy and space ) Notable display of the Leonids over the Americas. |
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01 Nov 1967
Pulsars |
Pulsars (astronomy and space ) Pulsars discovered by Jocelyn Bell working with Antony Hewish at the University of Cambridge, for which Hewish is awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974. These rapidly pulsating radio sources are explained a year later as rotating neutron stars. |
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01 Nov 1968
gastroenteritis |
gastroenteritis (medicine) Outbreak of acute gastroenteritis among schoolchildren in Norwalk, Ohio, caused by "Norwalk agent", the first identified norovirus. |
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01 Nov 1975
Priscilla Fairfield Bok |
death Priscilla Fairfield Bok Priscilla Fairfield Bok (b. 1896), American astronomer. |
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01 Nov 1982
Helen House |
Helen House (medicine) Helen House, the world’s first children’s hospice, is set up by Sister Frances Dominica in Oxford, England. |
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01 Nov 1999
Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds |
Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (biology) Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds comes into force. |
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01 Nov 2002
Severe acute respiratory syndrome |
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (medicine) Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic begins in Guangdong Province of China. |
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01 Nov 2006
Sony PRS500 |
Sony PRS500 (computer science) Sony PRS500 e-book reader launched in the United States. |
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