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||490 BC: Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon. | ||490 BC: Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon. | ||
||1611: Simon Forman dies ... occultist and astrologer. Pic (fierce!). | |||
File:Nebula orionis as depicted by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1758.jpg|link=Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|1725: Astronomer [[Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|Guillaume Le Gentil]] born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus). | File:Nebula orionis as depicted by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1758.jpg|link=Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|1725: Astronomer [[Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|Guillaume Le Gentil]] born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus). | ||
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||1894: Frans Michel Penning born ... experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic. | ||1894: Frans Michel Penning born ... experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic. | ||
||1897: Irène Joliot-Curie born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1897: Irène Joliot-Curie born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1877: Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel born ... mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device. | ||1877: Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel born ... mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device. | ||
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1725: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
2017: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins Pulitzer Prize.
2018: Green Sprouts voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
