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||1898 – Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer (d. 1990) no pic
||1898 – Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer (d. 1990) no pic


||1900 – Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
||1900: Ham Fisher born ... cartoonist.


||1904 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860) Light radiation  
||1904: Niels Ryberg Finsen dies ... physician and author, Nobel Prize laureate ... Light radiation  


||Evan Tom Davies (b. 24 September 1904) was a Welsh mathematician and linguist. He studied applications of the Lie derivative as it relates to Riemannian geometry as well as absolute differential calculus
||1904: Evan Tom Davies born ... mathematician and linguist. He studied applications of the Lie derivative as it relates to Riemannian geometry as well as absolute differential calculus


||1905 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
||1905: Severo Ochoa born ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)


||1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
||1906: U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.


||John Ray Dunning (b. September 24, 1907) was an American physicist who played key roles in the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bombs. He specialized in neutron physics, and did pioneering work in gaseous diffusion for isotope separation.
||1907: John Ray Dunning dies ... physicist who played key roles in the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bombs. He specialized in neutron physics, and did pioneering work in gaseous diffusion for isotope separation.


||1911 – His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
||1911: Menahem Max Schiffer born ... mathematician who worked in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schiffer.html


||1923 – Raoul Bott, Hungarian-American mathematician (d. 2005)
||1911: His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
 
||1923: Raoul Bott born ... mathematician.


File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|1934: Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] born.
File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|1934: Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] born.


||1935 – Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi.
||1935: Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi.


File:Alice Beta Paragliding.jpg|link=Alice Beta Paragliding|1937: ''[[Alice Beta Paragliding]]'' published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] program.
File:Alice Beta Paragliding.jpg|link=Alice Beta Paragliding|1937: ''[[Alice Beta Paragliding]]'' published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] program.

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