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||1725 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792) | |||
||1812 – Richard March Hoe, American engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press (d. 1886) | |||
||1818 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (d. 1903) | |||
||1894 – Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher (d. 1976) | |||
||1897 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956) | |||
File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic. | File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic. | ||
||1923 – Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (b. 1841) | |||
||1927 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847) | |||
||1933 – Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. | |||
||1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France. | |||
||1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia. | |||
||1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon. | |||
||1961 – Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic (b. 1898) | |||
||1962 – President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. | |||
||1966 – Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions) | |||
||1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space. | |||
||2005 – Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (b. 1927) | |||
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1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.