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||1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.
||1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.
File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|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]].


File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|1837: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|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.
File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|1837: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|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.
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||2015: Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.
||2015: Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.
Violet_Spiral_2.jpg|link=Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|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 (nonfiction)|violet]].


||2016: Michel Marie Deza dies ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.
||2016: Michel Marie Deza dies ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.

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  • 1553: Physician and botanist Prospero Alpini born. He will travel around Egypt, serve as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua, and write several botanical treatises covering exotic plants of economic and medicinal value.

    1553: Physician and botanist Prospero Alpini born. He will travel around Egypt, serve as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua, and write several botanical treatises covering exotic plants of economic and medicinal value.

  • 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.

    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.

  • 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.

    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.

  • 1847: Engineer Charles Renard born. Renard will pioneer the design and construction of airships. He will also propose a set of preferred numbers now known as the Renard series.

    1847: Engineer Charles Renard born. Renard will pioneer the design and construction of airships. He will also propose a set of preferred numbers now known as the Renard series.

  • 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.

    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.

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