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||1903: John Jay Gergen born ... mathematician who introduced the Lebesgue–Gergen criterion for convergence of a Fourier series. Pic: https://math.duke.edu/gergen | ||1903: John Jay Gergen born ... mathematician who introduced the Lebesgue–Gergen criterion for convergence of a Fourier series. Pic: https://math.duke.edu/gergen | ||
||1918: Friedrich Karl Johannes Thiele dies ... chemist and a prominent professor at several universities, including those in Munich and Strasbourg. He developed many laboratory techniques related to isolation of organic compounds. In 1907 he described a device for the accurate determination of melting points, since named Thiele tube after him. Pic. | ||1918: Friedrich Karl Johannes Thiele dies ... chemist and a prominent professor at several universities, including those in Munich and Strasbourg. He developed many laboratory techniques related to isolation of organic compounds. In 1907 he described a device for the accurate determination of melting points, since named Thiele tube after him. Pic. | ||
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File:Bay of Pigs.jpg|link=Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|1961: [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]]: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. | File:Bay of Pigs.jpg|link=Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|1961: [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]]: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. | ||
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1968: Industrialist, motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Colonel Zersetzung]] calls the [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]] "a dark day for free-market economics", promises to supply Sirhan Sirhan with "all the [[Clandestiphrine]] he needs to get the job done right." | |||File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1968: Industrialist, motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Colonel Zersetzung]] calls the [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]] "a dark day for free-market economics", promises to supply Sirhan Sirhan with "all the [[Clandestiphrine]] he needs to get the job done right." | ||
File:Sirhan_Sirhan.jpg|link=Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|assassinating Robert F. Kennedy]]. | File:Sirhan_Sirhan.jpg|link=Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|assassinating Robert F. Kennedy]]. | ||
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1598: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli born. Riccioli will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
1790: Polymath Benjamin Franklin dies. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
1902: Mathematician and astronomer Eberhard Hopf born. Hopf will pioneer ergodic theory and bifurcation theory, and make contributions to partial differential equations, integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry.
1938: Philosopher and author Kerry Wendell Thornley born. Thornley will write a manuscript, The Idle Warriors, about his acquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.
1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1996: Mathematician, author, and poet Piet Hein dies. Hein proposed the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.