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||1605 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1694) | |||
||1694 – Gabriel Mouton, French mathematician and theologian (b. 1618) | |||
||1852 – Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907) | |||
||1852 – Isis Pogson, British astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1945) | |||
||1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (d. 1934) | |||
||1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice. | |||
||1895 – Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822) | |||
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital. | File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital. | ||
||1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (d. 1996) | |||
||1925 – Martin David Kruskal, American physicist and mathematician (d. 2006) | |||
||1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later. | |||
||1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins. | |||
||1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. | |||
||1953 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and scholar (b. 1889) | |||
||1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile. | |||
||1979 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (b. 1921) | |||
||1991 – SAC stands down from alert all ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under START I, as well as its strategic bomber force. | |||
||2008 – SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit. | |||
|File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|[[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]]. | |File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|[[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]]. | ||
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1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.