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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. | ||
||1803: The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people. | ||1803: The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people. | ||
||1817: In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins. | ||1817: In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins. | ||
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||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. | ||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 | ||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 | ||
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||1932: Katharine Blodgett Gebbie born ... astrophysicist and civil servant. Pic. | ||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. | ||
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||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: 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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||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. Pic. | ||
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||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.