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2013 Event - The FBI reports they have discovered who stole $580 million in masterpieces from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, the greatest art heist in American history

2013 Event - After measuring its spin and parity, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider firmly believe the particle discovered in July 2012 is a Higgs boson

2012 Event - A new species of freshwater fish are discovered; the new species of darter fish, Etheostoma obama, are named after U.S. President Barack Obama

2012 Event - For the first time, a browsable, analysable overview of four million functional elements of the human genome discovered to date, are made available to the public in the 'Encyclopedia of DNA Elements'

2012 Event - Trogloraptor marchingtoni, an unusual spider discovered in 2010 is determined to be a new family of spiders previously unknown in the world of science; the new spider family has been named Trogloraptor, meaning 'cave robber'

2012 Event - The U-550, a sunken German U-Boat, is discovered off the cost of Massachusetts

2012 Event - A biblical picture of Samson and a Hebrew inscription is discovered in an ancient synagogue in the Galilee region of northern Israel

2012 Event - A missing piece of the Mayan calendar is discovered, proving the Maya didn't believe 2012 would be the end of the world

2012 Event - In the Philippines, four new species of freshwater crab are discovered; the crab are bright purple in color

2011 Event - A World War II-era bomb is discovered in the German city of Halle; 12,000 people are evacuated

2011 Event - A colony of stromatolites is discovered at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland

2011 Event - A skull believed to be 20-million years old is discovered in a Uganda; the skull is believed to be from a tree-climbing ape

2011 Event - Neptune completes its first orbit of the sun since the planet was discovered in 1846

2011 Event - A German naval mine from World War II is discovered and dismantled by BP; removing the bomb avoided potential closure of 16 oil fields

2010 Event - Remains of a human that lived 400,000 years ago are discovered in Israel, challenging the theory that humans originated in Africa

2010 Event - A Japanese salmon subspecies, the black kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae) is discovered after being declared extinct in 1940

2010 Event - In China, a 2,400 ear-old pot of soup is discovered near the country's ancient capital of Xi'an

2010 Event - Authorities searching two homes near Escondido, California, find the largest cache of homemade explosives ever discovered in the U.S.

2010 Event - HIP 13044 b, a planet that was formed in another galaxy, is discovered in the Helmi Stream

2010 Event - A sophisticated tunnel used by drug smugglers between Tijuana, Mexico and Otay Mesa, California, is discovered by U.S. Border Patrol

2010 Event - A substantially large oil field that is estimated to contain between 8 and 15 billion barrels, is discovered off the coast of Brazil

2010 Event - A new, though threatened, language known as Koro, is discovered by a team of linguists on an expedition to Arunachal Pradesh, in northeastern India

2010 Event - A study suggests the 2010 Haiti Earthquake was caused by newly discovered fault line

2010 Event - A car bomb is discovered and deactivated in New York City's Times Square

2010 Event - Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human, is identified by scientists through DNA analysis from a finger discovered in a cave near Siberia, Russia

2010 Event - One year after thousands of children became ill from melamine in milk, new traces of melamine in milk products is discovered in China

2009 Event - U.S. Scientists believe to have discovered an antibody that can miminize internal bleeding in trauma victims

2009 Event - A new species of a giant carnivorous plant, Nepethes attenboroughii, is discovered in the central Phillipines highlands

2009 Event - Buddhist Treasures buried during the 1930's Mongolian Communist Purge, were discovered in the Gobi desert

2002 Death - Frank Inn, Hollywood animal trainer, discovered Benji, dies at 86

1997 Event - Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish

1997 Death - Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer, discovered Pluto in 1930, dies at 90

1997 Event - 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1

1995 Event - Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)

1994 Event - Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered

1989 Event - Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk Belgium

1989 Event - 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered

1988 Death - Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C), dies at 91

1987 Event - Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot

1984 Event - 1st planet outside our solar system discovered

1984 Event - Hepatitis virus is discovered

1984 Event - Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally

1984 Event - Centers for Disease Control says virus discovered in France causes AIDS

1983 Event - Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt

1979 Event - 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Io, a satellite of Jupiter

1977 Event - Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 3.4-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered

1977 Event - Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO

1975 Event - Oldest animal fossils in U.S. discovered in North Carolina

1973 Event - Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory

1968 Event - 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)

1964 Event - Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam

1961 Event - U.S. element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered

1961 Death - P J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies

1956 Event - A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')

1955 Death - Carl Ramsauer, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect, dies in Berlin, Germany

1953 Event - "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax

1947 Event - Military coup discovered in France

1945 Event - 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 Event - New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3 km dia)

1935 Event - Nylon discovered by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers

1933 Event - Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson and Eric William Fawcett

1932 Birthday - Porter Wagoner, country singer, discovered Dolly Parton, Y'All Come

1927 Event - Giant Panda discovered, China

1926 Event - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa

1921 Birthday - Skeezix, of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep

1920 Death - J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies

1918 Event - Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered

1914 Birthday - James Van Allen, U.S. physicist, discovered Van Allen radiation belts

1914 Event - Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo

1910 Event - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea

1908 Event - Pasiphae, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte

1906 Birthday - Clyde William Tombaugh, U.S., astronomer, discovered Pluto

1905 Birthday - Laszlo Kalmar, born in Hungary, mathematician, discovered mathematical logic, founder, theoretical computer science in Hungary

1905 Birthday - Emilio Segre, born in Tivoli, Italy, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for Fat Man atomic bomb used on Nagasaki

1905 Event - Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine

1903 Birthday - Cecil Frank Powell, England, physicist, discovered pion, Nobel 1950

1901 Birthday - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty, Nobel 32

1901 Event - Oil discovered in Texas

1899 Event - Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering

1896 Birthday - Charles Glenn King, biochemist, discovered vitamin C

1896 Event - Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala

1896 Event - Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson

1894 Birthday - Norbert Wiener, U.S., mathematician/discovered cybernetics

1893 Event - Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered

1891 Birthday - James Chadwick, English physicist, discovered neutron

1880 Death - John Sutter, U.S. colonist (gold discovered on his land), dies at 77

1879 Birthday - Carl Ramsauer, born in Oldenburg, Germany, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect

1879 Event - Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas

1877 Event - Phobos (Martian satellite) discovered (A Hall)

1872 Birthday - Roald Amundsen, born in Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole

1867 Birthday - Marie Curie, French Scientist, discovered radium, Nobel 1903, 1911

1864 Event - Gold is discovered in Helena, Montana

1859 Event - Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania and Mozambique discovered by British explorer David Livingstone

1859 Event - Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered

1859 Event - Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada

1856 Birthday - Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron, Nobel 1906

1852 Birthday - Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity, Nobel 1903

1852 Death - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92

1851 Event - Gold fields discovered in Australia

1851 Event - Yosemite Valley discovered in California

1850 Event - Gold discovered in Oregon, Rogue River

1849 Birthday - Oskar Hertwig, Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization

1848 Event - Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (U.S.) and Lassell (England)

1846 Event - Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell

1845 Birthday - Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, born in Germany, discovered X-rays, Nobel 1901

1844 Event - Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Mountains

1840 Event - Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (U.S. claim)

1835 Birthday - Giovanni Schiaparelli, born in Italy, astronomer, discovered canals of Mars

1834 Birthday - Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist, discovered periodic table of the elements

1832 Event - Source of Mississippi River discovered, Henry R. Schoolcraft

1829 Birthday - Asaph Hall, discovered satellites of Mars, Phobos and Deimos

1829 Birthday - August Kekule von Stradonitz, discovered structure of benzene ring

1822 Death - F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 85

1820 Event - Antarctica discovered by Nathaniel B. Palmer on the 'Hero', a 47 foot sloop

1818 Birthday - James Prescott Joule, physicist, discovered conservation of energy

1815 Event - 1st natural gas well in U.S. is discovered

1814 Birthday - Galen Clark, U.S., naturalist and discovered Mariposa Grove

1812 Birthday - Johann G Galle, German astronomer, discovered Neptune.

1809 Birthday - Charles Darwin, England, discovered evolution, 'Origin of Species'

1800 Event - Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France

1794 Event - Honolulu Harbor discovered

1792 Event - Columbia River discovered and named by U.S. Captain Robert Gray

1792 Birthday - Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, naturalist, discovered human ovum

1791 Birthday - Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor

1790 Event - Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City

1787 Birthday - George Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law

1787 Birthday - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law

1787 Event - Titania and Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel

1781 Event - Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)

1778 Birthday - Hunphry Davy, English chemist, discovered some elements

1778 Event - Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Captain Cook

1776 Birthday - Henri Dutrochet, discovered and named process of osmosis

1763 Birthday - Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist, discovered chromium, beryllium

1760 Birthday - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, discovered yttrium

1758 Birthday - Wilhelm Olbers, discovered asteroids, Pallas and Vesta

1749 Birthday - Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination

1741 Event - Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering

1738 Birthday - F William Herschel, German/English astronomer, discovered Uranus

1733 Birthday - Joseph Priestley, born in England, clergyman and scientist, discovered oxygen

1731 Birthday - Henry Cavendish, England, physicist/chemist, discovered hydrogen

1728 Birthday - James Cook, Scotland, captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands

1700 Event - Pacific Island of New Britain discovered

1659 Death - Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, New Zealand), dies at about 56

1658 Event - Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered

1642 Event - New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman

1629 Birthday - Christian Huygens, Holland, astronomer, discovered Saturn's rings

1602 Event - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold

1597 Death - Willem Barents, explorer (discovered Spitsbergen and Bereneil), dies

1587 Birthday - Johannes Fabricius, Denmark, astronomer, discovered sunspots

1578 Birthday - William Harvey, born in England, physician, discovered blood circulation

1542 Event - Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast

1513 Event - Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon

1494 Event - Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St. Iago"

1492 Event - Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Mole Saint Nicolas

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