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||1935: Vladislav Volkov born ... engineer and astronaut. | ||1935: Vladislav Volkov born ... engineer and astronaut. | ||
||1937: Jagadish Chandra Bose dies ... polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction. | ||1937: Jagadish Chandra Bose dies ... polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction. Pic. | ||
||1942: Stanisław Zaremba dies ... mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. Pic. | ||1942: Stanisław Zaremba dies ... mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. Pic. | ||
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||1953: Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior. | ||1953: Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior. | ||
||1969: Saul Winstein dies ... chemist who discovered the Winstein reaction. He argued a non-classical cation was needed to explain the stability of the norbornyl cation. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=saul+winstein | |||
||1972: The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket. | ||1972: The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket. | ||
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1720: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.
1836: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1837: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
1924: Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color violet.