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||1844: Jacob Lüroth born ... mathematician who proved Lüroth's theorem and introduced Lüroth quartics.  Pic.
||1844: Jacob Lüroth born ... mathematician who proved Lüroth's theorem and introduced Lüroth quartics.  Pic.


||1849: Jérôme Eugène Coggia born ... astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets
||1849: Jérôme Eugène Coggia born ... astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets.


File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
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||1943: World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
||1943: World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
||1944: Charles Davenport dies ... eugenicist and biologist. He was one of the leaders of the American eugenics movement. Pic.


||1955: Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
||1955: Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.

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