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Science on the 4th of November in history

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Date	Type	Text
04 Nov 1652 Jean-Charles de la Faille	science	death Jean-Charles de la Faille Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (born 1597)	0
04 Nov 1698 Rasmus Bartholin	science	death Rasmus Bartholin Rasmus Bartholin, Danish scientist (born 1625)	0
04 Nov 1798 Karl Kreil	science	birth Karl Kreil Karl Kreil, Austrian astronomer (died 1862)	0
04 Nov 1800 November 4	science	November 4 (zoology) November 4 – Major-General Thomas Davies first describes the Superb Lyrebird.	0
04 Nov 1837 James Douglas	science	birth James Douglas James Douglas (died 1918), metallurgist.	0
04 Nov 1847 James Young Simpson	science	James Young Simpson (medicine) James Young Simpson discovers the anesthetic properties of chloroform and first uses it, successfully, on a patient, in an obstetric case in Edinburgh.	0
04 Nov 1869 London	science	London The first issue of scientific journal Nature is published in London, edited by Norman Lockyer.	0
04 Nov 1877 Gustave Eiffel	science	Gustave Eiffel (technology) Opening of Gustave Eiffel's Maria Pia Bridge carrying the railway across the Douro into Porto, Portugal.	0
04 Nov 1897 C. B. van Niel	science	birth C. B. van Niel C. B. van Niel (died 1985), microbiologist.	0
04 Nov 1908 Józef Rotblat	science	birth Józef Rotblat Józef Rotblat (died 2005), Polish-born physicist.	0
04 Nov 1911 MS Selandia	science	MS Selandia (technology) MS Selandia, the first large ocean-going diesel ship, is launched in Denmark; Ivar Knudsen is the diesel engineer. The 1909-launched Dutch diesel tanker Vulcanus also enters service this year.	0
04 Nov 1920 Ludwig Struve	science	death Ludwig Struve Ludwig Struve, Russian astronomer (born 1858).	0
04 Nov 1922 British	science	British (archaeology) British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt.	0
04 Nov 1925 Charles F. Brannock	science	Charles F. Brannock (technology) Charles F. Brannock files a patent for the Brannock Device for measuring shoe sizes.	0
04 Nov 1960 Kasakela Chimpanzee Community	science	Kasakela Chimpanzee Community (biology) At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community, Jane Goodall observes a chimpanzee using a grass stalk to extract termites from a termite hill, the first recorded case of tool use by animals.	0
04 Nov 1960 OH 7	science	OH 7 (paleontology) OH 7, first fragments of Homo habilis, discovered by Jonathan Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.	0
04 Nov 1980 Elsie MacGill	science	death Elsie MacGill Elsie MacGill (b. 1905), Canadian aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes".	0
04 Nov 2002 Tactical High Energy Laser	science	Tactical High Energy Laser (technology) A Tactical High Energy Laser prototype shoots down an incoming artillery shell.	0

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