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File:Ismaël Boulliau.jpg|link=Ismaël Bullialdus (nonfiction)|1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Ismaël Bullialdus (nonfiction)|Ismaël Bullialdus]] publishes ''Astronomia Gnomaica'', his monumental study of [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | File:Ismaël Boulliau.jpg|link=Ismaël Bullialdus (nonfiction)|1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Ismaël Bullialdus (nonfiction)|Ismaël Bullialdus]] publishes ''Astronomia Gnomaica'', his monumental study of [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | ||
||1840: John Alfred Brashear born ... scientist, telescope maker and educator. | ||1840: John Alfred Brashear born ... scientist, telescope maker and educator. Pic. | ||
File:Origin of Species title page.jpg|link=On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|1859: Charles Darwin publishes ''[[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|On the Origin of Species]]''. | File:Origin of Species title page.jpg|link=On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|1859: Charles Darwin publishes ''[[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|On the Origin of Species]]''. | ||
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||1864: Benjamin Silliman dies ... chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to distill petroleum in America, and a founder of the American Journal of Science, the oldest continuously published scientific journal in the United States. Pic. | ||1864: Benjamin Silliman dies ... chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to distill petroleum in America, and a founder of the American Journal of Science, the oldest continuously published scientific journal in the United States. Pic. | ||
||1909: Gerhard Karl Erich Gentzen born ... mathematician and logician. He made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics, proof theory, especially on natural deduction and sequent calculus. | ||1909: Gerhard Karl Erich Gentzen born ... mathematician and logician. He made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics, proof theory, especially on natural deduction and sequent calculus. Pic. | ||
||1916: Hiram Maxim dies ... engineer, invented the Maxim gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun | ||1916: Hiram Maxim dies ... engineer, invented the Maxim gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun | ||
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||2008: John Robert Stallings Jr. dies ... mathematician known for his seminal contributions to geometric group theory and 3-manifold topology. Pic. | ||2008: John Robert Stallings Jr. dies ... mathematician known for his seminal contributions to geometric group theory and 3-manifold topology. Pic. | ||
||2012: Nicholas Turro dies ... chemist and academic. | ||2012: Nicholas Turro dies ... chemist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=nicholas+turro | ||
||2015: Heinz Oberhummer dies ... physicist, astronomer, and academic. | ||2014: Rudolf Hoppe dies ... chemist, discovered the first covalent noble gas compounds. Pic (with cat!). | ||
||2015: Heinz Oberhummer dies ... physicist, astronomer, and academic. Pic. | |||
||2015: Pierre Gabriel dies ... mathematician and academic. He worked on category theory, algebraic groups, and representation theory of algebras. Pic: http://www.pierre-peter-gabriel-mathematics.ch/biography/ | ||2015: Pierre Gabriel dies ... mathematician and academic. He worked on category theory, algebraic groups, and representation theory of algebras. Pic: http://www.pierre-peter-gabriel-mathematics.ch/biography/ | ||
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1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.
1639: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Ismaël Bullialdus publishes Astronomia Gnomaica, his monumental study of crimes against astronomical constants.
1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1962: First broadcast of That Was the Week That Was.
1963: In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail.
2016: Three Kings voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.