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18 Dec 1639
Gottfried Kirch |
birth Gottfried Kirch Gottfried Kirch, German astronomer (died 1710) |
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18 Dec 1661
Christopher Polhem |
birth Christopher Polhem Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (died 1751) |
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18 Dec 1848
Bernard Bolzano |
death Bernard Bolzano Bernard Bolzano (born 1781), Bohemian mathematician. |
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18 Dec 1862
Lucas Barrett |
death Lucas Barrett Lucas Barrett (born 1837), English naturalist (drowned) |
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18 Dec 1878
Joseph Swan |
Joseph Swan (technology) Joseph Swan of Newcastle upon Tyne in England announces his invention of an incandescent light bulb. |
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18 Dec 1892
Richard Owen |
death Richard Owen Richard Owen (born 1804), anatomist and paleontologist. |
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18 Dec 1912
Piltdown Man |
Piltdown Man (paleontology) Skull of "Piltdown Man" presented to the Geological Society of London as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown form of early human. It is revealed to be a hoax in 1953. |
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18 Dec 1958
SCORE |
SCORE (astronomy and space ) The United States launches SCORE, the world's first communications satellite. |
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18 Dec 1966
Epimetheus |
Epimetheus (astronomy and space ) Epimetheus, another of the moons of Saturn, is discovered, but mistaken for Janus which shares its orbit and they are not distinguished until 1978. |
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18 Dec 1994
Chauvet Cave |
Chauvet Cave (archaeology) Chauvet Cave discovered by Jean-Marie Chauvet and other speleologists near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in the Ardèche department of southern France, containing some of the earliest known cave paintings of animals, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. |
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18 Dec 1998
Lev Demin |
death Lev Demin Lev Demin (b. 1926), cosmonaut. |
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18 Dec 2014
Robert Simpson |
death Robert Simpson Robert Simpson, 102, American meteorologist and co-developer of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale |
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