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1989
Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
1985
Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon
1975
Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC
1955
Clarton-Schwerdt and Schaffer discover polio virus
1953
Francis Crick and James Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule
1951
Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system
1943
Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn
1940
4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
1922
Banting, MacLeod and Best discover insulin
1921
Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies
1912
English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before
1845
Georg Cantor, German mathematician, discover transfinite numbers
1809
Joseph Liouville, France, discover of transcendental numbers
1756
Jacques Cassini, Fr astronomer (Discover rings of Saturn), dies at 79
1598
Netherland sailors discover Mauritius
1502
Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro
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