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||988: Dunstan dies ... was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London, and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. Patron saint of: blacksmiths; Charlottetown, Canada; goldsmiths; locksmiths; musicians; silversmiths; bellringers. No DOB. Pic. | ||988: Dunstan dies ... was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London, and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. Patron saint of: blacksmiths; Charlottetown, Canada; goldsmiths; locksmiths; musicians; silversmiths; bellringers. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1637: Isaac Beeckman dies ... scientist and philosopher. Pic search maybe | ||1637: Isaac Beeckman dies ... scientist and philosopher. Pic search maybe. | ||
File:Termómetro Christin 1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1743: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The Thermometer of Lyon will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design. | File:Termómetro Christin 1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1743: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The Thermometer of Lyon will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design. | ||
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||1914: Max Perutz born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1914: Max Perutz born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1915: Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs born ... mathematician specializing in complex analysis. His main area of research was Nevanlinna theory. Pic search | ||1915: Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs born ... mathematician specializing in complex analysis. His main area of research was Nevanlinna theory. Pic search. | ||
||1918: Abraham Pais born . | File:Abraham_Pais.jpg|link=Abraham Pais (nonfiction)|1918: Physicist, historian, and academic [[Abraham Pais (nonfiction)|Abraham Pais]] born. Pais will be an assistant to Niels Bohr, and a colleague of Albert Einstein, and later write books documenting the lives of these two great physicists and the contributions they and others made to modern physics. | ||
||1927: Serge Lang born ... mathematician, author and academic. Pic. | ||1927: Serge Lang born ... mathematician, author and academic. Pic. | ||
||1928: Sergey Mergelyan born ... mathematician who made major contributions to Approximation Theory. Pic. | ||1928: Sergey Mergelyan born ... mathematician who made major contributions to Approximation Theory. Pic: plaque. | ||
||1930: Rudolf Emil Kálmán born ... electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He was most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. Pic. | ||1930: Rudolf Emil Kálmán born ... electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He was most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. Pic. | ||
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1743: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The Thermometer of Lyon will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design.
1883: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels stolen. It will later be recovered by Niles Cartouchian and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.
1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will research tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.
1918: Physicist, historian, and academic Abraham Pais born. Pais will be an assistant to Niels Bohr, and a colleague of Albert Einstein, and later write books documenting the lives of these two great physicists and the contributions they and others made to modern physics.
1954: Computer programmer Jean Bartik discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
1971: The Soviet Union launches the Mars 2 spacecraft. The spacecraft will reach Mars, but the landing module will crash after failing to deploy its parachute.
1979: New analysis of the Petrozavodsk phenomenon using Gnomon algorithm techniques reveals traces of the transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine, Prima facie evidence of felony-grade math crimes under the APTO Accords.
2017: Soviet Air Defense office Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov dies. Petrov became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 launch, observing a moment of silence for the failure of the mission.
2018: Three Kings 2 voted Picture of the Day by the Citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.