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||1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (b. 1736)
||1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (b. 1736)


||1829 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian (d. 1920)
File:Moritz Benedikt Cantor.jpg|link=Moritz Cantor (nonfiction)|1829: Mathematician and historian [[Moritz Cantor (nonfiction)|Moritz Cantor]] born. He will write ''Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik'', which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.


||1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.
||1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.

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  • 1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.

    1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.

  • 1946: Signed first edition of Alice and Niles Dancing sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1946: Signed first edition of Alice and Niles Dancing sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

    1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

  • 1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.

    1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.

  • 1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

    1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

  • 2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.

    2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.

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