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Science on the 29th of November in history

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Date	Type	Text
29 Nov 1627 John Ray	science	birth John Ray John Ray, English naturalist (died 1705)	0
29 Nov 1646 Laurentius Paulinus Gothus	science	death Laurentius Paulinus Gothus Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (born 1565)	0
29 Nov 1694 Marcello Malpighi	science	death Marcello Malpighi Marcello Malpighi, Italian physiologist (born 1628)	0
29 Nov 1743 Great Comet of 1744	science	Great Comet of 1744 (astronomy) Discovery of C/1743 X1, the 'Great Comet of 1744' (sic.), by Jan de Munck at Middelburg and subsequently by de Chéseaux and Klinkenberg.	0
29 Nov 1766 John Wyatt	science	death John Wyatt John Wyatt, English inventor (born 1700)	0
29 Nov 1803 Christian Doppler	science	birth Christian Doppler Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and discoverer of the Doppler effect (died 1853)	0
29 Nov 1825 Jean-Martin Charcot	science	birth Jean-Martin Charcot Jean-Martin Charcot (died 1893), French neurologist.	0
29 Nov 1840 James Crichton-Browne	science	birth James Crichton-Browne James Crichton-Browne (died 1938), psychiatrist.	0
29 Nov 1874 António Egas Moniz	science	birth António Egas Moniz António Egas Moniz (died 1955), winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	0
29 Nov 1877 Thomas Edison	science	Thomas Edison (technology) Thomas Edison first demonstrates his phonograph sound recording machine.	0
29 Nov 1918 Thomas Allinson	science	death Thomas Allinson Thomas Allinson (born 1858), physician and dietetic reformer.	0
29 Nov 1929 Richard Byrd	science	Richard Byrd (aviation) US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.	0
29 Nov 1951 LEO	science	LEO (computer science) LEO becomes the first computer to run a full commercial business application, for the British bakers J. Lyons and Co.	0
29 Nov 1954 Enrico Fermi	science	death Enrico Fermi Enrico Fermi (born 1901), Italian American physicist.	0
29 Nov 1955 Partial lunar eclipse	science	Partial lunar eclipse (astronomy) Partial lunar eclipse.	0
29 Nov 1972 Atari	science	Atari (computer science) Atari release the production version of Pong, one of the first video games, devised by Nolan Bushnell and Allan Alcorn.	0

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