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24 Nov 1615
Sethus Calvisius |
death Sethus Calvisius Sethus Calvisius, German musician and astronomer (born 1556) |
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24 Nov 1642
Abel Tasman |
Abel Tasman (exploration) Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer, is the first European known to sight Tasmania, which he names Anthoonij van Diemenslandt. |
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24 Nov 1703
Great Storm of 1703 |
Great Storm of 1703 (meteorology) December 2 – The Great Storm of 1703, an Atlantic hurricane, ravages southern England and the English Channel, killing nearly 8000, mostly at sea. |
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24 Nov 1840
John Brashear |
birth John Brashear John Brashear (died 1920), astronomer. |
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24 Nov 1859
Charles Darwin |
Charles Darwin (biology) Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species. |
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24 Nov 1859
French ironclad Gloire |
French ironclad Gloire (technology) French ironclad Gloire launched, the first ocean-going ironclad battleship. |
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24 Nov 1888
Eduard Pernkopf |
birth Eduard Pernkopf Eduard Pernkopf (died 1955), anatomist. |
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24 Nov 1909
Gerhard Gentzen |
birth Gerhard Gentzen Gerhard Gentzen (died 1945), German-born mathematician. |
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24 Nov 1916
Hiram Maxim |
death Hiram Maxim Hiram Maxim (born 1840), American inventor of the machine gun. |
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24 Nov 1929
Franciszek Kokot |
birth Franciszek Kokot Franciszek Kokot, Polish nephrologist. |
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24 Nov 1949
Sally Davies |
birth Sally Davies Sally Davies, English Chief Medical Officer. |
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24 Nov 1959
Yardymli meteorite |
Yardymli meteorite (astronomy and space ) Yardymli meteorite makes a landfall in Azerbaijan. |
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24 Nov 1974
paleoanthropologists |
paleoanthropologists (paleoanthropology an) A group of paleoanthropologists discover remains of a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia, nicknaming her "Lucy". |
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24 Nov 1985
László Bíró |
death László Bíró László Bíró (b. 1899), Hungarian inventor. |
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