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||1790 – George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor (d. 1866) | ||1790 – George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor (d. 1866) | ||
||Giacomo Luigi Ciamician (27 August 1857 – 2 January 1922) was an Italian photochemist and senator of Armenian descent. Pic. | |||
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]]. | ||
||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) | ||1868 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer and academic (d. 1921) | ||
||1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) | |||
||1883 – Rube Goldberg, American sculptor, cartoonist, and engineer (d. 1970) | ||1883 – Rube Goldberg, American sculptor, cartoonist, and engineer (d. 1970) |
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1858: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and set theory.
1926: Chemist and composer George Brecht born. He will be a conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who will work as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil.
1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist dies. She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
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.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Reality Television Show.