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28 Dec 1612
Galileo |
Galileo (astronomy) Galileo observes the planet Neptune for the first time when it is in conjunction with Jupiter, but mistakenly catalogues it as a fixed star because of its extremely slow motion along the ecliptic, and it will not be properly identified until 1846. |
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28 Dec 1663
Francesco Maria Grimaldi |
death Francesco Maria Grimaldi Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian physicist (born 1618) |
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28 Dec 1708
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort |
death Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (born 1656) |
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28 Dec 1745
Juan de Ayala |
birth Juan de Ayala Juan de Ayala, Spanish explorer (died 1797) |
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28 Dec 1798
Thomas Henderson |
birth Thomas Henderson Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer (died 1844) |
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28 Dec 1829
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |
death Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (born 1744), naturalist. |
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28 Dec 1882
Arthur Eddington |
birth Arthur Eddington Arthur Eddington (died 1944), astrophysicist. |
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28 Dec 1893
Richard Spruce |
death Richard Spruce Richard Spruce (born 1817), English botanist. |
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28 Dec 1903
John von Neumann |
birth John von Neumann John von Neumann (died 1957), mathematician. |
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28 Dec 1907
Huia |
Huia (zoology) Last confirmed sighting of a Huia in New Zealand. |
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28 Dec 1969
Linus Torvalds |
birth Linus Torvalds Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer. |
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28 Dec 1973
Endangered Species Act |
Endangered Species Act (biology) Endangered Species Act signed into law in the United States. |
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28 Dec 1975
Frances McConnell-Mills |
death Frances McConnell-Mills Frances McConnell-Mills (b. 1900), American toxicologist. |
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