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||1900: Jacob Mendes Da Costa dies ... physician. Pic. | ||1900: Jacob Mendes Da Costa dies ... physician. Pic. | ||
File:Norman Lorimer Dean with his Dean drive.jpg|link=Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|1902: Inventor [[Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|Norman Lorimer Dean]] born. Dean designed the Dean drive, which he promoted as a reactionless drive. | |||
||1906: Ernesto Cesàro dies ... mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. Pic | ||1906: Ernesto Cesàro dies ... mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. Pic | ||
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1725: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
1902: Inventor Norman Lorimer Dean born. Dean designed the Dean drive, which he promoted as a reactionless drive.
1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
2017: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins Pulitzer Prize.
2018: Green Sprouts voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
