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||699: En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima. | ||699: En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima. Pic: statue. | ||
||1274: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi dies ... scientist and writer. Pics: postage stamps, observatory. | ||1274: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi dies ... scientist and writer. Pics: postage stamps, observatory. | ||
||1541: Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. | ||1541: Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1694: Georg Brandt born ... chemist and mineralogist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=georg+brandt | ||1694: Georg Brandt born ... chemist and mineralogist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=georg+brandt | ||
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File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins. | File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins. | ||
||1810: Joseph-Michel Montgolfier dies ... inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon. | ||1810: Joseph-Michel Montgolfier dies ... inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon. Pic. | ||
File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1823: [[Havelock]] announces plan to collaborate with [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] and [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] on building an [[Orrery (nonfiction)|orrery]] which models [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|the heat death of the universe]]. | File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1823: [[Havelock]] announces plan to collaborate with [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] and [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] on building an [[Orrery (nonfiction)|orrery]] which models [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|the heat death of the universe]]. | ||
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||2006: Tommy Wonder dies ... magician. | ||2006: Tommy Wonder dies ... magician. | ||
|| | ||2011: Österplana 065 discovered ... an Ordovician fossil meteorite found in the Thorsberg quarry in Sweden. Österplana 065 is believed to have originated from a larger asteroid, and belongs to a meteorite type that does not presently fall on the Earth. Pic. | ||
File:Swirl.jpg|link=Swirl (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Swirl (nonfiction)|Swirl]]'' is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Swirl.jpg|link=Swirl (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Swirl (nonfiction)|Swirl]]'' is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1730: Astronomer Charles Messier born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1823: Havelock announces plan to collaborate with David Rittenhouse and Lord Kelvin on building an orrery which models the heat death of the universe.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1850: Mathematician and crime-fighter Carl Wilhelm Borchardt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use arithmetic-geometric mean theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1913: Computer scientist and physicist Maurice Wilkes born. He will pioneer several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing.
2016: Swirl is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.