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File:Andreas Libavius.jpg|link=Andreas Libavius (nonfiction)|1616: Physician, alchemist and chemist [[Andreas Libavius (nonfiction)|Andreas Libavius]] dies. He accepted the Paracelsian principle of using occult properties to explain phenomena with no apparent cause, but rejected the conclusion that a thing possessing these properties must have an astral connection to the divine. | File:Andreas Libavius.jpg|link=Andreas Libavius (nonfiction)|1616: Physician, alchemist and chemist [[Andreas Libavius (nonfiction)|Andreas Libavius]] dies. He accepted the Paracelsian principle of using occult properties to explain phenomena with no apparent cause, but rejected the conclusion that a thing possessing these properties must have an astral connection to the divine. | ||
File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1748: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]]'s interest in astronomy is stimulated by an annular solar eclipse visible from his hometown. | File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1748: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]]'s interest in astronomy is stimulated by an annular solar eclipse visible from his hometown. | ||
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File:Johann Benedict Listing.jpg|link=Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|1808: Mathematician [[Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|Johann Benedict Listing]] born. He will introduce the term "topology", first in correspondence, then in a famous article published in 1847. | File:Johann Benedict Listing.jpg|link=Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|1808: Mathematician [[Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|Johann Benedict Listing]] born. He will introduce the term "topology", first in correspondence, then in a famous article published in 1847. | ||
||1825: Mathematician Henry Wilbraham born. He is known for discovering and explaining the Gibbs phenomenon nearly fifty years before J. Willard Gibbs did. Gibbs and Maxime Bôcher, as well as nearly everyone else, were unaware of Wilbraham's work on the Gibbs phenomenon. Pic search | ||1825: Mathematician Henry Wilbraham born. He is known for discovering and explaining the Gibbs phenomenon nearly fifty years before J. Willard Gibbs did. Gibbs and Maxime Bôcher, as well as nearly everyone else, were unaware of Wilbraham's work on the Gibbs phenomenon. Pic search. | ||
File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1837: The first commercial use of an [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|electrical telegraph]] is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. | File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1837: The first commercial use of an [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|electrical telegraph]] is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. | ||
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||1909: Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes. | ||1909: Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes. | ||
||1913: British civil servant, intelligence officer, and spy John Cairncross born. During the Second World War, he passed the information to the Soviets that influenced the Battle of Kursk. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five spy ring. Pic. | |||
||1916: Fred Lasswell born ... cartoonist, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Pic (cartoon). | |||
File:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|link=Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|1920: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer [[Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|Rosalind Franklin]] born. She will make contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). | File:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|link=Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|1920: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer [[Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|Rosalind Franklin]] born. She will make contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). | ||
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||1920: The first trans-Atlantic two-way radio broadcast was made. Source needed. | ||1920: The first trans-Atlantic two-way radio broadcast was made. Source needed. | ||
|| | ||1923: Dennis Lindley born ... statistician, decision theorist, and academic. Lindley was a leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. Pic search. | ||
||1923: Edgar Gilbert born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Edgar-Gilbert | ||1923: Edgar Gilbert born ... mathematician and theorist. He contributed to the understanding of the relation between molecular electronic structure and electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra during the period of 1955 through 1965. After that, he developed the technique of spin-labels, whereby electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra can be used to study the structure and kinetics of proteins and membranes. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Edgar-Gilbert | ||
||1924: Debabrata Basu born ... statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics. Pic. | ||1924: Debabrata Basu born ... statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics. Pic. | ||
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||1965: Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. | ||1965: Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. | ||
||1969: Otto Dix dies ... painter and illustrator. Pic. | |||
||1969: Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war. | ||1969: Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war. | ||
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||1984: Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. | ||1984: Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. | ||
||1987: Charles Stark Draper dies ... scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. Pic search | ||1987: Charles Stark Draper dies ... scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. Pic search. | ||
||1993: Vincent Schaefer dies ... 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 | ||1993: Vincent Schaefer dies ... 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 cool. | ||
||1995: Toru Kumon dies ... mathematician, academic, educator. Pic search | ||1995: Toru Kumon dies ... mathematician, academic, educator. Pic search. | ||
||2003: Ludwig Bölkow dies ... aero engineer ... Messer-262. Pic. | ||2003: Ludwig Bölkow dies ... aero engineer ... Messer-262. Pic. | ||
||2008: Tracy Hall dies ... chemist and academic ... synth diamond. Pic search | ||2008: Tracy Hall dies ... chemist and academic ... synth diamond. Pic search cool. | ||
||2008: Randy Pausch dies ... computer scientist and educator ... interface design. Pic. | ||2008: Randy Pausch dies ... computer scientist and educator ... interface design. Pic. | ||
||2013: Hugh Huxley dies ... molecular biologist and academic ... made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle. Pic search | ||2013: Hugh Huxley dies ... molecular biologist and academic ... made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle. Pic search. | ||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' observes a minute of silence in memory of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter, which was turned off forty-one years ago, after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' observes a minute of silence in memory of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter, which was turned off forty-one years ago, after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | ||
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1616: Physician, alchemist and chemist Andreas Libavius dies. He accepted the Paracelsian principle of using occult properties to explain phenomena with no apparent cause, but rejected the conclusion that a thing possessing these properties must have an astral connection to the divine.
1748: Astronomer Charles Messier's interest in astronomy is stimulated by an annular solar eclipse visible from his hometown.
1808: Mathematician Johann Benedict Listing born. He will introduce the term "topology", first in correspondence, then in a famous article published in 1847.
1837: The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1842: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey dies. He was an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, and is often considered the first modern military surgeon.
1920: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin born. She will make contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a minute of silence in memory of the Viking 2 orbiter, which was turned off forty-one years ago, after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around Mars.
