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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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