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||1899: Otto E. Neugebauer born ... mathematician and historian of science who became known for his research on the history of astronomy and the other exact sciences in antiquity and into the Middle Ages. By studying clay tablets, he discovered that the ancient Babylonians knew much more about mathematics and astronomy than had been previously realized. Pic search. | ||1899: Otto E. Neugebauer born ... mathematician and historian of science who became known for his research on the history of astronomy and the other exact sciences in antiquity and into the Middle Ages. By studying clay tablets, he discovered that the ancient Babylonians knew much more about mathematics and astronomy than had been previously realized. Pic search. | ||
File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1895: Documentary photographer and photojournalist [[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] born. Lange will be remembered for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Her photographs will influence the development of documentary photography and humanize the consequences of the Great Depression. | File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1895: Documentary photographer and photojournalist [[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] born. Lange will be remembered for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Her photographs will influence the development of documentary photography and humanize the consequences of the Great Depression. | ||
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||1933: Jimmy Rodgers dies. Pic. | ||1933: Jimmy Rodgers dies. Pic. | ||
File:Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities.jpg|link=House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|1938: In the United States, the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]] begins its first session. | File:Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities.jpg|link=House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|1938: In the United States, the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]] begins its first session. | ||
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1497: Mathematician and architect Antonio Manetti dies. He investigated the site, shape and size of Dante's Inferno, and wrote a biography of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi.
1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.
1814: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler born. He will invent the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.
1895: Documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born. Lange will be remembered for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Her photographs will influence the development of documentary photography and humanize the consequences of the Great Depression.
1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.