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File:Maria Mitchell.jpg|link=Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer and academic [[Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|Maria Mitchell]] born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer. | File:Maria Mitchell.jpg|link=Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer and academic [[Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|Maria Mitchell]] born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer. | ||
||1842 – A parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., celebrating the end of slavery in the West Indies was attacked by a mob, leading to three days of riots. Pic. | |||
||Ivar Otto Bendixson (b. August 1, 1861) was a Swedish mathematician. Pic. | ||Ivar Otto Bendixson (b. August 1, 1861) was a Swedish mathematician. Pic. | ||
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File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1977: Political campaign manager and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says that [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] "was practically a leftist." | File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1977: Political campaign manager and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says that [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] "was practically a leftist." | ||
||1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discovered the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England. | |||
||1996 – Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) | ||1996 – Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) | ||
||2004 – Philip Abelson, American physicist and author (b. 1913) | ||2004 – Philip Abelson, American physicist and author (b. 1913) | ||
||2007 – Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed (pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145. | |||
||2015 – Bernard d'Espagnat, French physicist, philosopher, and author (b. 1921) | ||2015 – Bernard d'Espagnat, French physicist, philosopher, and author (b. 1921) | ||
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1774: British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
1818: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre uses astronomical equations derived from analytical formulas which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1819: Astronomer and academic Maria Mitchell born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.
1869: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane falls asleep, relapses into her Janet Beta state.
1977: Francis Gary Powers dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.
1977: Political campaign manager and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says that Francis Gary Powers "was practically a leftist."