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||1880: Herbert Freundlich born ... chemist. Freundlich's main works dealt with the coagulation and stability of colloidal solutions. Pic.
||1880: Herbert Freundlich born ... chemist. Freundlich's main works dealt with the coagulation and stability of colloidal solutions. Pic.
File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1883: Artist, musician, poet, and alleged time-traveler [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] uses an improvised [[Runcible (nonfiction)|Runcible]] to defeat the [[Forbidden Ratio]] in single combat.


File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1884: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent the first bathyscaphe.
File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1884: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent the first bathyscaphe.
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||1947: "Slinky" patent approved.  
||1947: "Slinky" patent approved.  


File:Nikolai Luzin stamp.jpg|link=Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic [[Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|Nikolai Luzin]] dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.
File:Nikolai Luzin stamp.jpg|link=Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic [[Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|Nikolai Luzin]] dies. Luzin contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.
 
File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1961: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.


File:Ranger 3-4-5 probe.jpg|link=Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|1962: [[Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|Ranger 3]] space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
File:Ranger 3-4-5 probe.jpg|link=Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|1962: [[Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|Ranger 3]] space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

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  • 1540: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.

    1540: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.

  • 1608: Physiologist, physicist, and mathematician Giovanni Alfonso Borelli born. He will contribute to the modern principle of scientific investigation by continuing Galileo's practice of testing hypotheses against observation.

    1608: Physiologist, physicist, and mathematician Giovanni Alfonso Borelli born. He will contribute to the modern principle of scientific investigation by continuing Galileo's practice of testing hypotheses against observation.

  • 1855: Geologist Sekiya Seikei born. He will be one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.

    1855: Geologist Sekiya Seikei born. He will be one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.

  • 1884: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent the first bathyscaphe.

    1884: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent the first bathyscaphe.

  • 1885:Pilot, engineer, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt predicts that Auguste Piccard will "grow up to reach amazing heights, then go on to reach amazing depths."

    1885:Pilot, engineer, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt predicts that Auguste Piccard will "grow up to reach amazing heights, then go on to reach amazing depths."

  • 1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic Nikolai Luzin dies. Luzin contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.

    1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic Nikolai Luzin dies. Luzin contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.

  • 1962: Ranger 3 space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

    1962: Ranger 3 space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

  • 1988: Physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.

    1988: Physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.

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