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Science on the 6th of November in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
06 Nov 1528 Spanish	science	Spanish (exploration) Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions become the first Europeans known to set foot on the territory of Texas.	0
06 Nov 1534 Joachim Camerarius the Younger	science	birth Joachim Camerarius the Younger Joachim Camerarius the Younger, German physician and botanist (died 1598)	0
06 Nov 1656 Jean-Baptiste Morin	science	death Jean-Baptiste Morin Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (born 1583)	0
06 Nov 1771 Alois Senefelder	science	birth Alois Senefelder Alois Senefelder (died 1834), inventor of lithography.	0
06 Nov 1808 Friedrich Julius Richelot	science	birth Friedrich Julius Richelot Friedrich Julius Richelot, German mathematician (died 1875).	0
06 Nov 1814 Adolphe Sax	science	birth Adolphe Sax Adolphe Sax, Belgian musical instrument maker and inventor (died 1894).	0
06 Nov 1822 Claude Louis Berthollet	science	death Claude Louis Berthollet Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist (born 1748)	0
06 Nov 1837 Public Garden	science	Public Garden (biology) Establishment of the Public Garden in Boston (Massachusetts), as a botanical garden, the first in the United States to be open to the general public.	0
06 Nov 1894 Abingdon, Illinois	science	Abingdon, Illinois (technology) William C. Hooker of Abingdon, Illinois is granted a United States patent for a spring-loaded mousetrap.	0
06 Nov 1901 Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker	science	birth Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (died 1957), British phycologist.	0
06 Nov 1914 Jacques Loeb	science	Jacques Loeb (biology and medicine) Jacques Loeb publishes a paper on artificial parthenogenesis in sea urchins.	0
06 Nov 1932 François Englert	science	birth François Englert François Englert, Belgian theoretical physicist, joint recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of the Higgs mechanism.	0
06 Nov 1935 Henry Fairfield Osborn	science	death Henry Fairfield Osborn Henry Fairfield Osborn (born 1857), paleontologist.	0
06 Nov 1939 Sonderaktion Krakau	science	Sonderaktion Krakau Sonderaktion Krakau: The Gestapo arrests scientists from the Jagiellonian University and other institutions in Kraków, Poland; on November 27 they are sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.	0
06 Nov 1987 rapist	science	rapist (genetics) Florida rapist Tommy Lee Andrews is the first person to be convicted as a result of DNA fingerprinting.	0
06 Nov 1997 KLOTHO	science	KLOTHO (biology) The discovery of KLOTHO is reported, a gene involved in human aging.	0

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