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||1742 – Luigi Guido Grandi, Italian monk, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1671)
||1790 – George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor (d. 1866)
File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|1858: Mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]].
File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|1858: Mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]].


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||1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
||1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
||1868 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer and academic (d. 1921)
||1883 – Rube Goldberg, American sculptor, cartoonist, and engineer (d. 1970)


||1883 – Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
||1883 – Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.


||1896 – Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin (d. 1993)
||1896 – Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin (d. 1993)
||1902 – Meyer Lansky, American gangster (d. 1983)
||1910 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (b. 1835)


||1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
||1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
||1921 – Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)


||1926 – George Brecht, American-German chemist and composer (d. 2008)
||1926 – George Brecht, American-German chemist and composer (d. 2008)


||1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)
||1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)
||1934 – Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)


File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.


||1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
||1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
||1941 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1881)


||1956 – The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
||1956 – The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
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||1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
||1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.


||2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
||1977 – Gersh Budker, Ukrainian physicist and academic (b. 1918)
 
||1986 – Oscar Zariski, Belarusian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1899)
 
File:Mars 23 aug 2003 hubble.jpg|link=Mars (nonfiction)|2003: [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]] makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.


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  • 1858: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and set theory.

    1858: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and set theory.

  • 1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

    1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

  • 2003: Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.

    2003: Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.

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