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||1980 – Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist (b. 1895) | ||1980 – Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist (b. 1895) | ||
||Allen Goodrich Shenstone, OBE, MC (d. February 16, 1980) was a Canadian physicist. He earned bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge. After a brief stint as a junior faculty member at the University of Toronto, he returned to Princeton, where he was a professor in the Department of Physics 1925–62. He chaired the department 1949–60. He worked primarily in the field of atomic spectroscopy | |||
||1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. | ||1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. | ||
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1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1610: Regicide François Ravaillac drinks Extract of Radium for the first time.
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1898: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.
1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to visualizes Hamangia figurines, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
