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||1765: Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding born. He will discover Juno. | ||1765: Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding born. He will discover Juno. | ||
||1800: Frederick Collier Bakewell born ... physicist who improved on the concept of the facsimile machine introduced by Alexander Bain in 1842 and demonstrated a working laboratory version at the 1851 World's Fair in London. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Frederick-Bakewell | |||
||1803: Jacques Charles François Sturm born ... mathematician and theorist. | ||1803: Jacques Charles François Sturm born ... mathematician and theorist. | ||
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1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1957: Industrialist and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung authorizes the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Investor and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde tell resporters that he "had nothing to do with the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)."