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||1847 – Marcus Whitman, American physician and missionary (b. 1802) | ||1847 – Marcus Whitman, American physician and missionary (b. 1802) | ||
||Ernest William Brown FRS (29 November 1866 – 22 July 1938) was an English mathematician and astronomer, who spent the majority of his career working in the United States and became a naturalised American citizen in 1923. His life's work was the study of the Moon's motion (lunar theory) and the compilation of extremely accurate lunar tables. He also studied the motion of the planets and calculated the orbits of Trojan asteroids. | |||
||1873 – Suzan Rose Benedict, American mathematician and academic (d. 1942) | ||1873 – Suzan Rose Benedict, American mathematician and academic (d. 1942) | ||
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1590: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin dies, killed by a fall in attempting to let himself down from the window of his cell. His prolific and versatile genius produced a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters led to imprisonment.
1877: Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1849: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming born. He will invent the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.
1855: London cholera map stolen by supervillain Abomynous; crime analysts forecast wave of cholera-related bank robberies.
1893: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.
1904: John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1918: Writer Madeleine L'Engle born. She will write the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.
1924: Composer Giacomo Puccini dies. He is remembered as "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
1955: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho suffers a partial meltdown during a coolant flow test.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars wins award for Best Reality TV Show.