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Science on the 24th of December in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
24 Dec 1524 Vasco da Gama	science	death Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator (born c. 1469)	0
24 Dec 1740 Anders Johan Lexell	science	birth Anders Johan Lexell Anders Johan Lexell, astronomer and mathematician (died 1784)	0
24 Dec 1808 Thomas Beddoes	science	death Thomas Beddoes Thomas Beddoes, reforming English physician (born 1760).	0
24 Dec 1818 James Prescott Joule	science	birth James Prescott Joule James Prescott Joule (died 1889), English physicist.	0
24 Dec 1828 Burke and Hare murders	science	Burke and Hare murders (medicine) Burke and Hare murders: William Burke is sentenced to hang for his part in the murder of 17 victims to provide bodies for dissection by Edinburgh anatomist Robert Knox.	0
24 Dec 1839 landslide	science	landslide (geology) An enormous landslide occurs at Axmouth, Devon, England. A report by geologists William Daniel Conybeare and William Buckland is one of the earliest scientific descriptions of such an event.	0
24 Dec 1839 Davies Gilbert	science	death Davies Gilbert Davies Gilbert (born 1767), English promoter of science.	0
24 Dec 1872 William John Macquorn Rankine	science	death William John Macquorn Rankine William John Macquorn Rankine (born 1820), physicist	0
24 Dec 1906 Reginald Fessenden	science	Reginald Fessenden (technology) Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast, including a musical recording, a violin solo, and readings, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts.	0
24 Dec 1910 William Hayward Pickering	science	birth William Hayward Pickering William Hayward Pickering (died 2004), head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.	0
24 Dec 1912 Merck	science	Merck (chemistry) Merck files patent applications for synthesis of the entactogenic drug MDMA, developed by Anton Köllisch.	0
24 Dec 1914 John Muir	science	death John Muir John Muir (born 1838), Scottish American geologist and ecologist, founder of the Sierra Club.	0
24 Dec 1927 Vladimir Bekhterev	science	death Vladimir Bekhterev Vladimir Bekhterev (born 1857), Russian psychologist.	0
24 Dec 1955 Henry K. Beecher	science	Henry K. Beecher (medicine) Henry K. Beecher publishes a paper indicating the powerful effect of placebos on patient outcomes.	0
24 Dec 1960 Carol Vorderman	science	birth Carol Vorderman Carol Vorderman, British mathematician.	0
24 Dec 1962 Wilhelm Ackermann	science	death Wilhelm Ackermann Wilhelm Ackermann (born 1896), German mathematician.	0
24 Dec 1968 Apollo 8	science	Apollo 8 (space exploration) Apollo 8 enters Moon orbit. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William A. Anders are the first humans to see the far side of the Moon and planet Earth as a whole. Anders photographs Earthrise.	0
24 Dec 1979 Ariane 1	science	Ariane 1 (astronomy and space ) The maiden launch of Ariane 1, the first rocket in the Ariane launcher family.	0

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