| Date | Text | |
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06 Dec 1586
Niccolò Zucchi |
birth Niccolò Zucchi Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (died 1670) |
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06 Dec 1778
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac |
birth Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (died 1850) |
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06 Dec 1799
Joseph Black |
death Joseph Black Joseph Black, Scottish chemist and physicist (born 1728) |
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06 Dec 1821
South Orkney Islands |
South Orkney Islands (geography and explor) The South Orkney Islands are discovered by George Powell and Nathaniel Palmer. |
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06 Dec 1823
Samuel Brown |
Samuel Brown (technology) English inventor Samuel Brown obtains his first patent for a hydrogen fuelled compressionless atmospheric gas vacuum engine, the first internal combustion engine to be applied industrially. |
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06 Dec 1855
William John Swainson |
death William John Swainson William John Swainson (born 1789), naturalist. |
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06 Dec 1874
Elizabeth Laird |
birth Elizabeth Laird Elizabeth Laird (died 1969), physicist |
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06 Dec 1892
Werner von Siemens |
death Werner von Siemens Werner von Siemens (born 1816), electrical engineer. |
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06 Dec 1893
Rudolf Wolf |
death Rudolf Wolf Rudolf Wolf (born 1816), Swiss astronomer |
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06 Dec 1920
George Porter |
birth George Porter George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002). |
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06 Dec 1967
Adrian Kantrowitz |
Adrian Kantrowitz (medicine) Dr Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first pediatric heart transplant, at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, United States, on a 19-day-old infant, who survives for six hours. |
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06 Dec 1981
Harry Harlow |
death Harry Harlow Harry Harlow (b. 1905), American psychologist. |
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06 Dec 2005
Kaname Ikeda |
Kaname Ikeda (appointments) Kaname Ikeda is appointed as first Director General of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. |
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