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||490 BC: Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon.
||490 BC: Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon.
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||1897: Irène Joliot-Curie born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1897: Irène Joliot-Curie born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1877: Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel born ... mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Georg+Karl+Wilhelm+Hamel
||1877: Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel born ... mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device. Pic search.


File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
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||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.


||1917: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=désiré+andré
||1917: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. Pic search.


||1918: Maxime Bôcher dies ... mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him. Pic.
||1918: Maxime Bôcher dies ... mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him. Pic.


||1923: Jules Violle dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jules+violle
||1923: Jules Violle dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search.


||1927: Sarah Frances Whiting dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic.
||1927: Sarah Frances Whiting dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic.
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||1952: Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
||1952: Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.


||1953: Hugo Schmeisser dies ... weapons designer and engineer. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=hugo+schmeisser
||1953: Hugo Schmeisser dies ... weapons designer and engineer. Pic search.


||1959: The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
||1959: The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.


||1961: Carl Hermann dies ... physicist and academic ... crystallography. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Carl+Hermann
||1961: Carl Hermann dies ... physicist and academic ... crystallography. Pic search.


||1962: President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
||1962: President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
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||1992: NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
||1992: NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
||2001: Norman Ernest Borlaug dies ... agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Pic.


||2005: Serge Lang dies ... mathematician, author and academic. Pic.
||2005: Serge Lang dies ... mathematician, author and academic. Pic.

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