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||1895: Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray". Pic. | ||1895: Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray". Pic. | ||
||1897: Benjamin Lee Whorf born ... linguist, anthropologist, and engineer. | ||1897: Benjamin Lee Whorf born ... linguist, anthropologist, and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1899: Oscar Zariski born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1899: Oscar Zariski born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
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||1911: Irene Sänger-Bredt born ... engineer, mathematician and physicist. She is co-credited with the design of a proposed intercontinental spaceplane/bomber Pic: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576504001298 | ||1911: Irene Sänger-Bredt born ... engineer, mathematician and physicist. She is co-credited with the design of a proposed intercontinental spaceplane/bomber Pic: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576504001298 | ||
||1913: Dieter Grau born ... scientist and engineer. | ||1913: Dieter Grau born ... scientist and engineer. Peenemunde. Pic. | ||
File:Franck Hertz Hg tube.jpg|link=Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|1914: The [[Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|Franck–Hertz experiment]], a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society. | File:Franck Hertz Hg tube.jpg|link=Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|1914: The [[Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|Franck–Hertz experiment]], a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society. | ||
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1656: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1746: Priest, physicist, and practical joker Jean-Antoine Nollet discharges a battery of Leyden jars through a human chain, unexpectedly generating gray light, although the causes of gray light (in this case, electrical stimulation of a group of mathematicians) are poorly understood at the time.
1863: Printer, inventor, and crime-fighter Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville patents new type of phonoautograph, which records crimes against mathematical constants as photographic images.
1914: The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1915: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
2016: Signed first edition of Two Creatures 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops spontaneous artificial intelligence.