Template:Selected anniversaries/May 29
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1777: Physician and engineer John Mudge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'.
1917: Politician John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born.
1919: Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin view a solar eclipse as a test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
- Equations, theory of iterations, and the dynamics of holomorphic functions. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lucjan+Böttcher
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Blue Flower reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of blue.