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1997 Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mt Everest for 3rd time

1988 Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die)

1985 Charles F Richter, U.S. seismologist (scale of R), dies at 85

1973 Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's

1964 Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die

1957 1st U.S. large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn)

1957 Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, New York Met Opera), dies

1956 England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens

1948 Large scale fighting between Israel and Egypt

1941 Naomi Uemura, mountain climber, 1st Japanese to scale Everest

1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field, Virginia

1927 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan

1919 Edmund Hillary, NZ, one of 1st 2 men to scale Mt Everest

1900 Charles Richter, born in Ohio, Earthquakes seismologist, Richter scale

1824 Kelvin, [William Thomson], British physicist, Kelvin Scale

1774 Francis Beaufort, admiral/hydrographer, Beaufort wind force scale

1772 John Clais patents 1st scale

1741 Astronomer Anders Celcius introduces Centigrade temperature scale

1701 Anders Celsius, Sweden, scientist/inventor, centigrade temp scale



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