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||1741: John Wilson born ... mathematician. Wilson's theorem is named after him. Pic. | ||1741: John Wilson born ... mathematician. Wilson's theorem is named after him. Pic. | ||
||1753: Physicist and academic Georg Wilhelm Richmann dies by electrocution while conducting an experiment during a thunderstorm. He proved that thunder clouds contain electric charge. Pic. | |||
||1766: William Hyde Wollaston born ... chemist and physicist. Pic. | ||1766: William Hyde Wollaston born ... chemist and physicist. Pic. | ||
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||1795: Heinrich Rose born ... mineralogist and analytical chemist. Pic. | ||1795: Heinrich Rose born ... mineralogist and analytical chemist. Pic. | ||
||1844: James Henry Greathead born ... engineer. | ||1844: James Henry Greathead born ... civil engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railway. He is also the reason that the London Underground is colloquially named "the tube". Pic. | ||
||1881: Alexander Fleming born ... biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate, Penicillin. Pic. | ||1881: Alexander Fleming born ... biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate, Penicillin. Pic. | ||
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||1903: Philip McCord Morse born ... physicist, administrator and pioneer of operations research (OR) in World War II. He is considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S. | ||1903: Philip McCord Morse born ... physicist, administrator and pioneer of operations research (OR) in World War II. He is considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S. | ||
||1925: Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro dies ... mathematician born in Lugo di Romagna. He is most famous as the inventor of tensor calculus | ||1925: Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro dies ... mathematician born in Lugo di Romagna. He is most famous as the inventor of tensor calculus. | ||
File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1928: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] born. He will be a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement. | File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1928: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] born. He will be a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement. | ||
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1638: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche born. He will be instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.
1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.
1969: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight purchased by Andy Warhol for an undisclosed sum.
1991: Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2012: NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Spiral reveals "at least two, probably three, possibly four" previously unknown shades of green.