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14 Aug 1502
![]() Trujillo |
Trujillo (exploration) Columbus lands at Trujillo and names the country 'Honduras'. |
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14 Aug 1688
![]() Johann Leonhard Rost |
birth Johann Leonhard Rost Johann Leonhard Rost, German astronomer (died 1727) |
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14 Aug 1777
![]() Hans Christian Ørsted |
birth Hans Christian Ørsted Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist (died 1851) |
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14 Aug 1848
![]() Margaret Lindsay |
birth Margaret Lindsay Margaret Lindsay (died 1915), Irish astronomer. |
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14 Aug 1894
![]() Oliver Lodge |
Oliver Lodge (technology) Oliver Lodge demonstrates radio transmission (of Morse code) in the University of Oxford from the Clarendon Laboratory to the University Museum for the British Association for the Advancement of Science. |
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14 Aug 1909
![]() William Stanley |
death William Stanley William Stanley (born 1829), inventor. |
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14 Aug 1952
![]() Alan Turing |
Alan Turing (biology) Alan Turing's paper "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" is published, putting forward a reaction–diffusion hypothesis of pattern formation, considered a seminal piece of work in morphogenesis. |
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14 Aug 1958
![]() Frédéric Joliot-Curie |
death Frédéric Joliot-Curie Frédéric Joliot-Curie (born 1900), French physicist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935) |
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14 Aug 1971
![]() Stanford prison experiment |
Stanford prison experiment (psychology) Stanford prison experiment. |