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||1790 – George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor (d. 1866)
||1790: George Everest born ... geographer and surveyor.


||Giacomo Luigi Ciamician (27 August 1857 – 2 January 1922) was an Italian photochemist and senator of Armenian descent. Pic.
||1850: Augusto Righi born ... physicist and a pioneer in the study of electromagnetism. Pic.
 
||1857: Giacomo Luigi Ciamician born ... 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 born ... astronomer and academic.


||1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
||1874: Carl Bosch born ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1883 – Rube Goldberg, American sculptor, cartoonist, and engineer (d. 1970)
||1883: Rube Goldberg born ... sculptor, cartoonist, and engineer.


||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 born ... physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin.


||1902 – Meyer Lansky, American gangster (d. 1983)
||1902: Meyer Lansky born ... American gangster.


||Miron Nicolescu (b. August 27, 1903) was a Romanian mathematician.
||Miron Nicolescu (b. August 27, 1903) was a Romanian mathematician.

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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.

  • 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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Reality Television Show.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Reality Television Show.

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