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File:Filippo Mazzei.jpg|link=Philip Mazzei (nonfiction)|1730: Physician and activist [[Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|Filippo Mazzei]] born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War. | File:Filippo Mazzei.jpg|link=Philip Mazzei (nonfiction)|1730: Physician and activist [[Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|Filippo Mazzei]] born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War. | ||
||1758: Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time. | ||1758: Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time. Pic. | ||
File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1763: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] born. He will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age. | File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1763: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] born. He will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age. | ||
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||1866: Max Karl Werner Wien born ... physicist and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena. | ||1866: Max Karl Werner Wien born ... physicist and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena. | ||
||1868: Linus Yale, Jr. dies ... engineer and businessman. | ||1868: Linus Yale, Jr. dies ... engineer and businessman. Pic. | ||
||1876: Adolf Windaus born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1876: Adolf Windaus born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. He will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
1881: Physician, physiologist, and APTO field engineer Emil du Bois-Reymond uses experimental electrophysiology techniques to demonstrate a physiological basis for the energy exerted by Gnomon algorithm functions.
1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.
2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
2017: Swirl is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.