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Historical events when someone or something
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1796
Carl Friedrich Gauss
discovered
on
7/10/1796
that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers
...
750827
Carl Friedrich Gauss
discovered
on
3/30/1796
the construction of the heptadecagon
...
750824
Carl Friedrich Gauss
discovered
in
1796
regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
...
750823
1962
Yvonne Craig
discovered
Jimmy Boyd
in
1962
...
737819
1911
Hiram Bingham III
discovered
Machu Picchu
on
7/27/1911
at: (
-10,-76
)
...
736906
1988
Robin Williams
discovered
Valerie Velardi
in
1988
...
721884
1927
Ernest Hemingway
discovered
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson
in
1927
...
716273
1911
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
discovered
Superconductivity
on
4/8/1911
...
713853
1722
Jacob Roggeveen
discovered
Easter Island
on
4/5/1722
...
713824
1802
Heinrich Olbers
discovered
Pallas asteroid
on
3/27/1802
...
713722
1882
Robert Koch
discovered
tuberculosis Bacterium
on
3/24/1882
...
713662
1781
F William Herschel
discovered
Uranus
on
3/13/1781
...
713438
1618
Johannes Kepler
discovered
Third Law of Planetary Motion
on
3/8/1618
...
713394
1922
Howard Carter
discovered
Tomb of Tutankhamun
on
11/4/1922
...
713335
1660
Robert Hooke
discovered
Hookes Law of Electricity
in
1660
...
713334
1869
Dmitri Mendeleev
discovered
Period Table of Elements
on
3/6/1869
...
713304
1953
Francis Crick
discovered
the chemical structure of DNA
on
2/28/1953
...
713110
1899
Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev
discovered
measure the pressure of light on a solid body
in
1899
...
713024
-47
Marcus Tullius Cicero
discovered
Terentia
in
-47
...
400236
1493
Christopher Columbus
discovered
Santa Cruz
on
11/14/1493
...
264778
Christopher Columbus
discovered
Puerto Rico
on
11/19/1493
...
264777
1497
Cabot
discovered
Newfoundland
in
1497
...
264776
1513
Juan Ponce de Leon
discovered
Florida
in
1513
...
264775
1493
Christopher Columbus
discovered
Dominica
on
11/3/1493
...
264774
1492
Christopher Columbus
discovered
America
on
10/12/1492
...
264773
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