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||534 BC: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage. | ||534 BC: Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage. | ||
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||1912: Charles Bourseul dies ... pioneer in development of the "make and break" telephone about 20 years before Bell made a practical telephone. Pic. | ||1912: Charles Bourseul dies ... pioneer in development of the "make and break" telephone about 20 years before Bell made a practical telephone. Pic. | ||
||1915: Anne Burns born ... aeronautical engineer and glider pilot. | ||1915: Anne Burns born ... aeronautical engineer and glider pilot. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=anne+burns | ||
File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1924: [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|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. | File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1924: [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|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. | ||
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||1925: Edward F. Moore born ... professor of mathematics and computer science, the inventor of the Moore finite state machine, and an early pioneer of artificial life. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Edward+F.+Moore+mathematician | ||1925: Edward F. Moore born ... professor of mathematics and computer science, the inventor of the Moore finite state machine, and an early pioneer of artificial life. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Edward+F.+Moore+mathematician | ||
||1935: Vladislav Volkov born ... engineer and astronaut. | ||1935: Vladislav Volkov born ... engineer and astronaut, will die aboard Sozuz 11. Pic. | ||
||1937: Jagadish Chandra Bose dies ... polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction. Pic. | ||1937: Jagadish Chandra Bose dies ... polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction. Pic. | ||
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||1946: Stephen E. Straus born ... physician, immunologist, virologist and science administrator. He is particularly known for his research into human herpesviruses and chronic fatigue syndrome, and for his discovery of the autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome genetic disorder. Pic. | ||1946: Stephen E. Straus born ... physician, immunologist, virologist and science administrator. He is particularly known for his research into human herpesviruses and chronic fatigue syndrome, and for his discovery of the autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome genetic disorder. Pic. | ||
||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 | ||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 | ||
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|link=|2003: Grigori Aleksandrovich Tokaev dies ... rocket scientist and long-standing critic of Stalin's USSR. Pic. | |link=|2003: Grigori Aleksandrovich Tokaev dies ... rocket scientist and long-standing critic of Stalin's USSR. Pic. | ||
||2006: Alexander Litvinenko dies ... spy and defector. | ||2006: Alexander Litvinenko dies ... spy and defector. Pic. | ||
||2015: Jerzy Browkin dies ... mathematician, studying mainly algebraic number theory. He was a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1994, together with Juliusz Brzeziński, he formulated the n-conjecture—a version of the abc conjecture involving n > 2 integers. Pic. | ||2015: Jerzy Browkin dies ... mathematician, studying mainly algebraic number theory. He was a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1994, together with Juliusz Brzeziński, he formulated the n-conjecture—a version of the abc conjecture involving n > 2 integers. Pic. | ||
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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.