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21 Nov 1555
Georgius Agricola |
death Georgius Agricola Georgius Agricola, German metallurgist (born 1490) |
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21 Nov 1652
Jan Brożek |
death Jan Brożek Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician and astronomer (born 1585) |
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21 Nov 1783
Pilâtre de Rozier |
Pilâtre de Rozier (aviation) The first free flight by humans in a balloon is made by Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes who fly aloft for 25 minutes about 100 metres above Paris for a distance of 9 km. |
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21 Nov 1806
Alexander Henry Haliday |
birth Alexander Henry Haliday Alexander Henry Haliday, Irish entomologist (died 1870) |
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21 Nov 1835
Hanaoka Seishū |
death Hanaoka Seishū Hanaoka Seishū (born 1760), Japanese surgeon. |
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21 Nov 1843
Thomas Hancock |
Thomas Hancock (technology) Thomas Hancock patents the vulcanisation of rubber using sulphur in the United Kingdom |
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21 Nov 1856
James Meadows Rendel |
death James Meadows Rendel James Meadows Rendel (born 1799), English civil engineer. |
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21 Nov 1874
Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet |
death Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (born 1800), naturalist |
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21 Nov 1931
James Whale |
James Whale (other s) Release of James Whale's film of Frankenstein in New York, with electrical effects designed by Kenneth Strickfaden. |
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21 Nov 1953
Natural History Museum |
Natural History Museum (paleontology) Authorities at the Natural History Museum in London announce that the skull of Piltdown Man (allegedly an early human discovered in 1912) is a hoax. |
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21 Nov 1969
Interface Message Processors |
Interface Message Processors (computer science) The first permanent ARPANET link is established, between Interface Message Processors at UCLA and Stanford. |
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21 Nov 1996
Abdus Salam |
death Abdus Salam Abdus Salam (b. 1926), Punjabi-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
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