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||1639: Martin Lister born ... physician and geologist. He was physician to Queen Anne from 1709 until his death. Lister was a prolific correspondent. More than 2,000 letters written by and to him survive in the Bodleian Library, Oxford and other repositories. Pic. | ||1639: Martin Lister born ... physician and geologist. He was physician to Queen Anne from 1709 until his death. Lister was a prolific correspondent. More than 2,000 letters written by and to him survive in the Bodleian Library, Oxford and other repositories. Pic. | ||
||1684: Nicola Amati dies ... instrument maker; most well known luthier from the Casa Amati (House of Amati). Nicola was the teacher of illustrious Cremonese School luthiers such as Andrea Guarneri and Giovanni Battista Rogeri. Pic. | |||
||1794: Germinal Pierre Dandelin born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic. | ||1794: Germinal Pierre Dandelin born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic. | ||
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||1862: American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw). | ||1862: American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw). | ||
||1884: Otto Meyerhof born ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1884: Otto Meyerhof born ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1903: Jan Tinbergen born ... economist. He was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of econometrics. Pic. | ||1903: Jan Tinbergen born ... economist. He was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of econometrics. Pic. | ||
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1817: Astronomer Charles Messier dies. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1852: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann born. He will prove (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1947: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to manufacture high-grade clandestiphrine.
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight (Vostok 1).
1999: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use quantum foam theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for series of retro-temporal photographs of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.