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||1921: Herbert Frank York born ... nuclear physicist. He held numerous research and administrative positions at various United States government and educational institutes. Pic. | ||1921: Herbert Frank York born ... nuclear physicist. He held numerous research and administrative positions at various United States government and educational institutes. Pic. | ||
||1922: Claus Moser born ... statistician and academic. | ||1922: Claus Moser born ... statistician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1922: Stanford Robert Ovshinsky born ... was an American inventor and scientist who over a span of fifty years was granted well over 400 patents, mostly in the areas of energy and information. Many of his inventions have had wide ranging applications. Among the most prominent are: an environmentally friendly nickel-metal hydride battery, which has been widely used in laptop computers, digital cameras, cell phones, and electric and hybrid cars; flexible thin-film solar energy laminates and panels; flat screen liquid crystal displays; rewritable CD and DVD discs; hydrogen fuel cells; and nonvolatile phase-change memory. Pic. | ||1922: Stanford Robert Ovshinsky born ... was an American inventor and scientist who over a span of fifty years was granted well over 400 patents, mostly in the areas of energy and information. Many of his inventions have had wide ranging applications. Among the most prominent are: an environmentally friendly nickel-metal hydride battery, which has been widely used in laptop computers, digital cameras, cell phones, and electric and hybrid cars; flexible thin-film solar energy laminates and panels; flat screen liquid crystal displays; rewritable CD and DVD discs; hydrogen fuel cells; and nonvolatile phase-change memory. Pic. | ||
||1925: Simon van der Meer born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1925: Simon van der Meer born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1932: In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. | ||1932: In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. | ||
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1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.
1639: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Ismaël Bullialdus publishes Astronomia Gnomaica, his monumental study of crimes against astronomical constants.
1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1962: First broadcast of That Was the Week That Was.
1963: In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail.
2016: Three Kings voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.