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File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1648: [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] performs experiments to confirm the theory of atmospheric pressure and the existence of a vacuum. | File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1648: [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] performs experiments to confirm the theory of atmospheric pressure and the existence of a vacuum. | ||
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||1846: Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette. | ||1846: Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette. | ||
File: | File:Scrimshaw Abuse - Men hunting sea monsters for scrimshaw-grade tusk.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1851: Sailors hunting sea monsters for scrimshaw-grade tusk fall prey to '''[[Scrimshaw abuse]]''' while yet in longboats; they never return to the whaling ship ''Queepod'', but are later rescued by Scrimshaw-dependency naval medical personnel and transferred to the Bethesda Naval Scrimshaw Recovery Center. | ||
||1865: Carl Erich Correns born ... botanist and geneticist, who is notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, and for his rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of other researchers. Pic. | ||1865: Carl Erich Correns born ... botanist and geneticist, who is notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, and for his rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of other researchers. Pic. | ||
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||1917: Kai Lai Chung born ... mathematician known for his significant contributions to modern probability theory. Pic. | ||1917: Kai Lai Chung born ... mathematician known for his significant contributions to modern probability theory. Pic. | ||
File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1922: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] defeats Joseph Stalin in three-round bare-knuckle boxing match. | File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1922: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] defeats Joseph Stalin in three-round bare-knuckle boxing match. | ||
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File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' credits scientist and engineer [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (nonfiction)|Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]] for "inspiring generations of astronauts." | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' credits scientist and engineer [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (nonfiction)|Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]] for "inspiring generations of astronauts." | ||
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1648: Blaise Pascal performs experiments to confirm the theory of atmospheric pressure and the existence of a vacuum.
1710: Astronomer and instrument maker Ole Rømer dies. He made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1749: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre born. He will be one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas.
1761: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Pieter van Musschenbroek dies. He invented the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.
1811: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt born. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt will embrace the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
1851: Sailors hunting sea monsters for scrimshaw-grade tusk fall prey to Scrimshaw abuse while yet in longboats; they never return to the whaling ship Queepod, but are later rescued by Scrimshaw-dependency naval medical personnel and transferred to the Bethesda Naval Scrimshaw Recovery Center.
1894: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano writes to Felix Klein, "The purpose of mathematical logic is to analyze the ideas and reasoning that especially figure in the mathematical sciences."
1922: "Fightin'" Bert Russell defeats Joseph Stalin in three-round bare-knuckle boxing match.
1935: Scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky dies. He was one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics.
1957: The US military detonates the Plumbbob Rainier nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site. Plumbbob Rainier is the first American underground nuclear bomb test.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars credits scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky for "inspiring generations of astronauts."