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File:Robert Fludd.jpg|link=Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]] dies. | File:Robert Fludd.jpg|link=Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]] dies. | ||
||1682: Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz dies ... mathematician and philosopher. | ||1682: Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1761: Bernard Forest de Bélidor dies ... mathematician and engineer. | ||1761: Bernard Forest de Bélidor dies ... mathematician and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1836: Arthur Williams Wright born ... physicist. His research, which ranged from electricity to astronomy, produced the first X-ray image and experimented with Röntgen rays. Pic. | ||1836: Arthur Williams Wright born ... physicist. His research, which ranged from electricity to astronomy, produced the first X-ray image and experimented with Röntgen rays. Pic. | ||
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||1981: Hideki Yukawa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1981: Hideki Yukawa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. | File:Genesis spacecraft in collection mode.jpg|link=Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft ''[[Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Genesis]]'' crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. | ||
||2009: Aage Bohr dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2009: Aage Bohr dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1635: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Adriaan Metius manufactures precision optical instruments for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd dies.
1973: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for his next film by selling shares in the President Ford's pardon of former President Richard Nixon.
1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon."
2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
2013: Rhizolith Group performs new work in remembrance of mathematician Robert Fludd.