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||1898 – David Crosthwait, African-American engineer, inventor and writer (d. 1976) | ||1898 – David Crosthwait, African-American engineer, inventor and writer (d. 1976) | ||
||Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert (b. 27 May 1907) was a German mathematician known for his work in topology. Pic. | |||
||1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco. | ||1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco. | ||
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1610: Factotum and regicide François Ravaillac executed.
1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
1931: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard and his assistant Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.