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||1504: Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies. | ||1504: Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies. | ||
||1600: Caspar Hennenberger dies pastor, historian and cartographer. | |||
|| | ||1744: John Theophilus Desaguliers dies ... natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1764: Paul Erman born ... physicist and academic ... His work was mainly concerned with electricity and magnetism, though he also made some contributions to optics and physiology. Pic. | ||
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1860: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing. | File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1860: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing. | ||
||1928: Seymour Papert born ... mathematician | ||1928: Seymour Papert born ... mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at MIT. He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and of the constructionist movement in education. He was a co-inventor of the Logo programming language. Pic. | ||
||1932: Gene H. Golub born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation. | ||1932: Gene H. Golub born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation. Pic. | ||
||1932: Giuseppe Vitali dies ... mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis. He gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers. Pic. | ||1932: Giuseppe Vitali dies ... mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis. He gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers. Pic. | ||
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|link=Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|1940: In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist [[Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|Ernest Lawrence]] receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco. | |link=Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|1940: In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist [[Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|Ernest Lawrence]] receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco. | ||
||1903: Melvin Purvis takes his own life ... FBI agent. Pic. | |||
||1972: Vietnam War: Vietnamization: South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam. | ||1972: Vietnam War: Vietnamization: South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam. | ||
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1860: Inventor Herman Hollerith born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.