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||1054: A supernova, called SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song dynasty, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula. | ||1054: A supernova, called SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song dynasty, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula. | ||
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||1776: American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress. | ||1776: American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress. | ||
||1790: George Everest born ... surveyor and geographer who served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843. He is best known for having Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, named in his honor. Pic. | |||
||1802: At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens. | ||1802: At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens. | ||
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||1826: Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. Pic. | ||1826: Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. Pic. | ||
||1837: Sophus Mads Jørgensen born ... chemist. He is considered one of the founders of coordination chemistry. Pic. | ||1837: Sophus Mads Jørgensen born ... chemist. He is considered one of the founders of coordination chemistry. Pic. | ||
||1855: The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, ''Leaves of Grass'', is published In Brooklyn. | ||1855: The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, ''Leaves of Grass'', is published In Brooklyn. | ||
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File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes. | File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes. | ||
||1901: Peter | ||1901: Peter Tait dies ... mathematical physicist, best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. Pic. | ||
||1902: Botanist and evolutionary biologist Thorvald (Thorwald) Julius Sørensen born. He published the botanical research of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Pic. | |||
||1906: Vincent Schaefer born ... chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding. On November 13, 1946, while a researcher at the General Electric Research Laboratory, Schaefer modified clouds in the Berkshire Mountains by seeding them with dry ice. Pic seach yes cool: https://www.google.com/search?q=vincent+schaefer | |||
||1908: Aurelio Peccei born ... industrialist and philanthropist, best known as co-founder with Alexander King and first president of the Club of Rome, an organisation which attracted considerable public attention in 1972 with its report, The Limits to Growth. Pic. | ||1908: Aurelio Peccei born ... industrialist and philanthropist, best known as co-founder with Alexander King and first president of the Club of Rome, an organisation which attracted considerable public attention in 1972 with its report, The Limits to Growth. Pic. | ||
||1911: Frederick Seitz born ... physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics. Pic. | |||
||1919: Keith Batey born ... a codebreaker who, with his wife, Mavis Batey, worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during World War. Pic: http://spartacus-educational.com/Keith_Batey.htm | ||1919: Keith Batey born ... a codebreaker who, with his wife, Mavis Batey, worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during World War. Pic: http://spartacus-educational.com/Keith_Batey.htm | ||
||1922: Émile Zuckerkandl born ... biologist considered one of the founders of the field of molecular evolution. He is best known for introducing, with Linus Pauling, the concept of the "molecular clock", which enabled the neutral theory of molecular evolution. | ||1922: Émile Zuckerkandl born ... biologist considered one of the founders of the field of molecular evolution. He is best known for introducing, with Linus Pauling, the concept of the "molecular clock", which enabled the neutral theory of molecular evolution. Pic. | ||
||1928: Jürgen Kurt Moser born ... mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations. | ||1928: Jürgen Kurt Moser born ... mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations. Pic. | ||
||1932: Katharine Blodgett Gebbie born ... astrophysicist and civil servant. | ||1932: Katharine Blodgett Gebbie born ... astrophysicist and civil servant. Pic. | ||
File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1934: [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]], French-Polish physicist and chemist dies. She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium. | |||
File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1934: [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb. | File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1934: [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb. | ||
||1941: Włodzimierz Stożek dies ... mathematician. He published numerous papers on the theory of integral equations, potential theory, as well as on many other branches of mathematics. Pic. – Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. | File:Geometrical frustration icosahedron.jpg|link=Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|1935: Outbreak of [[Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|Geometrical frustration]] exposes new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1941: Włodzimierz Stożek dies ... mathematician. He published numerous papers on the theory of integral equations, potential theory, as well as on many other branches of mathematics. Pic. – Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. Pic. | |||
||1941: Antoni Łomnicki dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1951: Physicist and engineer [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] announces the invention of the junction transistor. | File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1951: Physicist and engineer [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] announces the invention of the junction transistor. | ||
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||1962: Thomas Jefferson Jackson dies ... astronomer whose promulgated theories in astronomy and physics were eventually disproven. His educational and professional career were dogged by conflict, including his attacks on relativity. He was fired from his position at two observatories, eventually serving out his professional years in an island outpost in California. Pic. | ||1962: Thomas Jefferson Jackson dies ... astronomer whose promulgated theories in astronomy and physics were eventually disproven. His educational and professional career were dogged by conflict, including his attacks on relativity. He was fired from his position at two observatories, eventually serving out his professional years in an island outpost in California. Pic. | ||
||1977: The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit | ||1977: The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit. | ||
File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] dies. | File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] dies. | ||
||1986: Oscar Zariski dies ... was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century. Pic. | |||
||1986: Oscar Zariski dies ... was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century. | |||
||1990: Marshall Hall, Jr. dies ... was an American mathematician who made significant contributions to group theory and combinatorics. | ||1990: Marshall Hall, Jr. dies ... was an American mathematician who made significant contributions to group theory and combinatorics. Pic. | ||
||1992: Francis Perrin dies ... was a French physicist, Nuclear High-Commissioner - In 1972, he discovered the Oklo natural reactor. | ||1992: Francis Perrin dies ... was a French physicist, Nuclear High-Commissioner - In 1972, he discovered the Oklo natural reactor. Pic. | ||
||1993: Yvette Amice dies ... mathematician whose research concerned number theory and p-adic analysis. Pic: http://johnbcosgrave.com/archive/oxford.htm. | ||1993: Yvette Amice dies ... mathematician whose research concerned number theory and p-adic analysis. Pic: http://johnbcosgrave.com/archive/oxford.htm. | ||
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||1997: Miguel Najdorf dies ... chess player and theoretician. Pic. | ||1997: Miguel Najdorf dies ... chess player and theoretician. Pic. | ||
||1997: NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars | ||1997: NASA's ''Pathfinder'' space probe lands on the surface of Mars. | ||
||1998: Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation. | ||1998: Japan launches the ''Nozomi'' probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation. | ||
||2002: Laurent-Moïse Schwartz dies ... mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions. Pic. | ||2002: Laurent-Moïse Schwartz dies ... mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions. Pic. | ||
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||2012: The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN. | ||2012: The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN. | ||
||2016: The arrival of the Juno probe to Jupiter | ||2016: The arrival of the ''Juno'' probe to Jupiter. | ||
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1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist dies. She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
1934: Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.
1935: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.
2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.