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27 Dec 1571
Johannes Kepler |
birth Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (died 1630) |
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27 Dec 1654
Jakob Bernoulli |
birth Jakob Bernoulli Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1705). |
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27 Dec 1716
Leonardo Ximenes |
birth Leonardo Ximenes Leonardo Ximenes, Tuscan polymath (died 1786) |
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27 Dec 1748
Edmund Weaver |
death Edmund Weaver Edmund Weaver, English astronomer (born c.1683) |
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27 Dec 1773
George Cayley |
birth George Cayley George Cayley, English pioneer of heavier-than-air flight (died 1857) |
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27 Dec 1822
Louis Pasteur |
birth Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur, biologist (died 1895) |
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27 Dec 1831
Charles Darwin |
Charles Darwin (exploration) Charles Darwin starts his voyage on HMS Beagle. |
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27 Dec 1845
Anesthesia |
Anesthesia (medicine) Anesthesia is used in childbirth for the first time, by Dr Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia. |
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27 Dec 1887
Edward Andrade |
birth Edward Andrade Edward Andrade (died 1971), English physicist. |
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27 Dec 1916
John Duckworth |
birth John Duckworth John Duckworth (died 2015), British physicist. |
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27 Dec 1918
Birt Acres |
death Birt Acres Birt Acres (born 1854), pioneer of cinematography. |
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27 Dec 1923
Gustave Eiffel |
death Gustave Eiffel Gustave Eiffel (born 1832), structural engineer. |
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27 Dec 1927
George Streisinger |
birth George Streisinger George Streisinger (died 1984), Hungarian-born molecular biologist; first person to clone a vertebrate. |
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27 Dec 1982
Jack Swigert |
death Jack Swigert Jack Swigert (b. 1931), American astronaut. |
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27 Dec 2004
neutron star |
neutron star (astronomy) A flare of radiation from an explosion on the super-magnetic neutron star (Magnetar) SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth – astronomers later calculate that it is the largest explosion observed in the Milky Way galaxy for 400 years. |
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