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||1621: Ralph Agas dies ... surveyor and cartographer. No DOB. Pic: map. | ||1621: Ralph Agas dies ... surveyor and cartographer. No DOB. Pic: map. | ||
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||1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. | ||1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. | ||
||1922: Charles M. Schulz born ... cartoonist, created Peanuts. | ||1922: Charles M. Schulz born ... cartoonist, created Peanuts. Pic. | ||
||1926: John Browning dies ... weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company. | ||1926: John Browning dies ... weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company. Pic. | ||
||Yash Pal born ... scientist, educator and educationist. He was known for his contributions to the study of cosmic rays, as well as for being an institution-builder. In his later years, he became one of India's leading science communicators. Pic. | ||Yash Pal born ... scientist, educator and educationist. He was known for his contributions to the study of cosmic rays, as well as for being an institution-builder. In his later years, he became one of India's leading science communicators. Pic. | ||
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File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2011: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] launches to Mars with the ''Curiosity'' Rover. | File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2011: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] launches to Mars with the ''Curiosity'' Rover. | ||
||2012: Joseph Murray dies ... surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize | ||2012: Joseph Murray dies ... surgeon and soldier ... performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954. Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with E. Donnall Thomas for their discoveries concerning "organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease." | ||
||2014: Marvin Leonard Goldberger dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic. | ||2014: Marvin Leonard Goldberger dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic. | ||
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1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan born. His observations and experiments will inspire the beginning of what will be known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.
1753: Mathematician and APTO theorist Abraham de Moivre publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, with an addendum on applications of Gnomon algorithm functions to the psychology of crimes against mathematical constants.
2011: The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.