2002 Frank Inn, Hollywood animal trainer, discovered Benji, dies at 86
1997 Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
1997 Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer, discovered Pluto in 1930, dies at 90
1997 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1
1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)
1994 Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered
1989 Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk Belgium
1989 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
1988 Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C), dies at 91
1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
1984 1st planet outside our solar system discovered
1984 Hepatitis virus is discovered
1984 Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally
1984 Centers for Disease Control says virus discovered in France causes AIDS
1983 Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1979 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Io, a satellite of Jupiter
1977 Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 3.4-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered
1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO
1975 Oldest animal fossils in U.S. discovered in North Carolina
1973 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
1968 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
1961 U.S. element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered
1961 P J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies
1956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
1953 "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax
1947 Military coup discovered in France
1945 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log
1943 New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3 km dia)
1935 Nylon discovered by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers
1933 Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson and Eric William Fawcett
1932 Porter Wagoner, country singer, discovered Dolly Parton, Y'All Come
1927 Giant Panda discovered, China
1926 Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
1921 Skeezix, of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep
1920 J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies
1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
1914 James Van Allen, U.S. physicist, discovered Van Allen radiation belts
1914 Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo
1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1908 Pasiphae, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte
1906 Clyde William Tombaugh, U.S., astronomer, discovered Pluto
1906 Albert Hofmann, Switzerland, chemist, discovered LSD
1905 Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine
1903 Cecil Frank Powell, England, physicist, discovered pion, Nobel 1950
1901 Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty, Nobel 32
1901 Oil discovered in Texas
1899 Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering
1896 Charles Glenn King, biochemist, discovered vitamin C
1896 Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala
1896 Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson
1894 Norbert Wiener, U.S., mathematician/discovered cybernetics
1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1891 James Chadwick, English physicist, discovered neutron
1880 John Sutter, U.S. colonist (gold discovered on his land), dies at 77
1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
1877 Phobos (Martian satellite) discovered (A Hall)
1872 Roald Amundsen, born in Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole
1864 Gold is discovered in Helena, Montana
1859 Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania and Mozambique discovered by British explorer David Livingstone
1859 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
1859 Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada
1856 Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron, Nobel 1906
1852 Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity, Nobel 1903
1852 Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92
1851 Gold fields discovered in Australia
1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California
1850 Gold discovered in Oregon, Rogue River
1849 Oskar Hertwig, Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization
1848 Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (U.S.) and Lassell (England)
1846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1845 Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, born in Germany, discovered X-rays, Nobel 1901
1844 Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Mountains
1840 Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)
1835 Giovanni Schiaparelli, born in Italy, astronomer, discovered canals of Mars
1834 Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist, discovered periodic table of the elements
1832 Source of Mississippi River discovered, Henry R. Schoolcraft
1829 Asaph Hall, discovered satellites of Mars, Phobos and Deimos
1829 August Kekule von Stradonitz, discovered structure of benzene ring
1822 F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 85
1820 Antarctica discovered by U.S. Navy Capt Nathaniel B. Palmer
1818 James Prescott Joule, physicist, discovered conservation of energy
1815 1st natural gas well in U.S. is discovered
1814 Galen Clark, U.S., naturalist and discovered Mariposa Grove
1812 Johann G Galle, German astronomer, discovered Neptune.
1809 Charles Darwin, England, discovered evolution, Origin of species
1800 Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France
1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered
1792 Columbia River discovered and named by U.S. Capt Robert Gray
1792 Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, naturalist, discovered human ovum
1791 Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor
1790 Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
1787 George Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law
1787 Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law
1787 Titania and Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
1781 Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)
1778 Hunphry Davy, English chemist, discovered some elements
1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook
1776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered and named process of osmosis
1763 Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist, discovered chromium, beryllium
1760 Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, discovered yttrium
1758 Wilhelm Olbers, discovered asteroids, Pallas and Vesta
1749 Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination
1741 Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering
1738 F William Herschel, German/English astronomer, discovered Uranus
1731 Henry Cavendish, England, physicist/chemist, discovered hydrogen
1728 James Cook, Scotland, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands
1700 Pacific Island of New Britain discovered
1659 Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, NZ), dies at about 56
1658 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered
1642 New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1629 Christian Huygens, Holland, astronomer, discovered Saturn's rings
1602 Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1597 Willem Barents, explorer (discovered Spitsbergen and Bereneil), dies
1587 Johannes Fabricius, Denmark, astronomer, discovered sunspots
1578 William Harvey, born in England, physician, discovered blood circulation
1542 Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast
1513 Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon
1494 Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St. Iago"
1492 Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Mole Saint Nicolas
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