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||1790 | ||1790: George Everest born ... geographer and surveyor. | ||
||Giacomo Luigi Ciamician | ||1850: Augusto Righi born ... physicist and a pioneer in the study of electromagnetism. Pic. | ||
||1857: Giacomo Luigi Ciamician born ... photochemist and senator of Armenian descent. Pic. | |||
File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|1858: Mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]]. | File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|1858: Mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]]. | ||
||1859 | ||1859: Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well. | ||
||1868 | ||1868: Henrietta Swan Leavitt born ... astronomer and academic. | ||
||1874 | ||1874: Carl Bosch born ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1883 | ||1883: Rube Goldberg born ... sculptor, cartoonist, and engineer. | ||
||1883 | ||1883: Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change. | ||
||1896 | ||1896: Léon Theremin born ... physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin. | ||
||1902 | ||1902: Meyer Lansky born ... American gangster. | ||
||Miron Nicolescu (b. August 27, 1903) was a Romanian mathematician. | ||Miron Nicolescu (b. August 27, 1903) was a Romanian mathematician. |
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1858: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and set theory.
1926: Chemist and composer George Brecht born. He will be a conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who will work as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil.
1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist dies. She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
2003: Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Reality Television Show.