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File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.
File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.


||1786: Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner born ... poet, practicing physician, and medical writer.
||1786: Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner born ... poet, practicing physician, and medical writer ... gave the first detailed description of botulism. Pic.


||1809: The Royal Opera House in London opens.
||1809: The Royal Opera House in London opens. Pic.


||1815: Henry C. Wayne born ... was a United States Army officer, and is known for his commanding the expedition to test the U.S. Camel Corps as part of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis's plan to use camels as a transport in the West. Wayne was also a Confederate adjutant and inspector-general for Georgia and a brigadier general during the American Civil War. Pic.
||1815: Henry C. Wayne born ... was a United States Army officer, and is known for his commanding the expedition to test the U.S. Camel Corps as part of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis's plan to use camels as a transport in the West. Wayne was also a Confederate adjutant and inspector-general for Georgia and a brigadier general during the American Civil War. Pic.
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||1854: Richard Tetley Glazebrook born ... physicist who was the first director of the UK National Physical Laboratory, from 1 Jan 1900 until his retirement in Sep 1919. At first, the laboratory's income depended on much routine, commercial testing, but Glazebrook championed fundamental, industrially oriented research. With support from individual donors, buildings were added for electrical work, metrology, and engineering. Data useful to the shipbuilding industry was collected in pioneering experimental work on models of ships made possible by a tank funded by Alfred Yarrow (1908). From 1909, laboratory began work benefitting the embryonic aeronautics industry, at the request of the secretary of state for war. The lab to contributed substantially to military needs during WW I Pic: http://www.npl.co.uk/about/history/directors/sir-richard-tetley-glazebrook
||1854: Richard Tetley Glazebrook born ... physicist who was the first director of the UK National Physical Laboratory, from 1 Jan 1900 until his retirement in Sep 1919. At first, the laboratory's income depended on much routine, commercial testing, but Glazebrook championed fundamental, industrially oriented research. With support from individual donors, buildings were added for electrical work, metrology, and engineering. Data useful to the shipbuilding industry was collected in pioneering experimental work on models of ships made possible by a tank funded by Alfred Yarrow (1908). From 1909, laboratory began work benefitting the embryonic aeronautics industry, at the request of the secretary of state for war. The lab to contributed substantially to military needs during WW I Pic: http://www.npl.co.uk/about/history/directors/sir-richard-tetley-glazebrook


||1860: Joseph Locke dies ... engineer and politician.
||1860: Joseph Locke dies ... engineer and politician. Pic.


||1873: Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
||1873: Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.


||1882: The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
||1882: The Pacific Stock Exchange opens. Pic.


||1891: William Ferrel dies ... meteorologist, developed theories which explained the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation cell in detail, and it is after him that the Ferrel cell is named. Pic.
||1891: William Ferrel dies ... meteorologist, developed theories which explained the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation cell in detail, and it is after him that the Ferrel cell is named. Pic.
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||1896: Hippolyte Fizeau dies ... physicist and academic ... best known for measuring the speed of light in the namesake Fizeau experiment. Pic.
||1896: Hippolyte Fizeau dies ... physicist and academic ... best known for measuring the speed of light in the namesake Fizeau experiment. Pic.


||1907: Edwin McMillan born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1907: Edwin McMillan born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1908: Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian born ... a Soviet Armenian scientist, and one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics. He worked in the field of physics of stars and nebulae, stellar astronomy, dynamics of stellar systems and cosmogony of stars and galaxies, and contributed to mathematical physics. Pic.
||1908: Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian born ... a Soviet Armenian scientist, and one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics. He worked in the field of physics of stars and nebulae, stellar astronomy, dynamics of stellar systems and cosmogony of stars and galaxies, and contributed to mathematical physics. Pic.
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||1931: The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
||1931: The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.


||1932: Nikolay Rukavishnikov born ... physicist and astronaut.
||1932: Nikolay Rukavishnikov born ... physicist and astronaut. Pic.


||1934: The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
||1934: The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
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||1959: Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
||1959: Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.


||1961: U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
||1961: U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Pic.


File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
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||1980: Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
||1980: Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.


||1984: Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
||1984: Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic. (Alive September 2019.) Pic.


||1997: United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
||1997: United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations. Pic.


||2001: First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
||2001: First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

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  • 1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

    1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

  • 1913: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein performs at charity concert to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1913: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein performs at charity concert to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1947: The majority of the provisions of the National Security Act, which establishes The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency, come into effect, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.

    1947: The majority of the provisions of the National Security Act, which establishes The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency, come into effect, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.

  • 1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

    1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

  • 1976: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

    1976: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

  • 1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

    1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

  • 1978: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Florence Violet McKenzie publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from AESOP during the Second World War.

    1978: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Florence Violet McKenzie publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from AESOP during the Second World War.

  • 2016: Red Spiral 3 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2016: Red Spiral 3 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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