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||1772: Gerard van Swieten dies ... physician and reformer. Pic.
||1772: Gerard van Swieten dies ... physician and reformer. Pic.


||1791: Denison Olmsted born ... physicist and astronomer. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon.
||1791: Denison Olmsted born ... physicist and astronomer. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon. Pic.


||1799: William Lassell born ... astronomer and merchant ... remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites. Pic.
||1799: William Lassell born ... astronomer and merchant ... remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites. Pic.
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||1845: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran born ... physician and parasitologist ... won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as profession. Pic.
||1845: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran born ... physician and parasitologist ... won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as profession. Pic.


||1858: Andrew Forsyth born ... mathematician and academic.
||1858: Andrew Forsyth born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1858: Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
||1858: Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.

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  • 1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.

    1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.

  • 1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).

    1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).

  • 1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

    1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

  • 2017: Culvert Origenes and The Governess wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.

    2017: Culvert Origenes and The Governess wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.

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