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Space Astrophysics

Astronomer Johannes Kepler was born

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Nature & Animals Evolution

Carl Linnaeus, father of modern taxonomy, is born

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Nature & Animals Evolution

Charles Darwin is born in Shrewsbury

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Human Body & Mind Medicine & Disease

Surgeons painlessly operated under ether for the first time in public

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History Modern

Magellan died in the Philippines, never finishing his voyage

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Technology Transportation

First flight across the English Channel by balloon

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Space Solar System

Galileo discovers Jupiter's largest moons

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Science Physics

Isaac Newton is born (New Style January 4)

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Technology Inventions

Johannes Gutenberg dies

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Science Physics

Michael Faraday, pioneer of electromagnetism, was born

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Science Mathematics

The pope reforms the calendar

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Technology Inventions

Radar gets its first proof in a field near Daventry

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Technology Inventions

Samuel Morse demonstrates the telegraph

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History Archaeology

Soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone in Egypt

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Space Space Exploration

The Moon's hidden face was photographed for the first time

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Technology Inventions

The first intelligible telephone call summoned an assistant

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Language & Communication Media & Communication

The 'Great Moon Hoax' began in a New York newspaper

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Culture & Arts Film & TV

The Lumiere brothers held the first projected film screening

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Technology Inventions

The transistor was first demonstrated at Bell Labs

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Space Space Exploration

The Vanguard 1 satellite was launched

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History Ancient

Eratosthenes measured the Earth with a stick and a shadow

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