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||1798 – Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (d. 1875) | ||1798 – Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (d. 1875) | ||
||1885 | File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1885: Physicist and philosopher [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. | ||
||1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832) | ||1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832) | ||
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||1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. | ||1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. | ||
||1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. | ||1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. | ||
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1796: Mathematician and philosopher Thomas Reid dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry. He disagreed with David Hume, who asserted that we can never know what an external world consists of as our knowledge is limited to the ideas in the mind, and George Berkeley, who asserted that the external world is merely ideas in the mind.
1885: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.