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||1689: Mathematician Joseph Raphson made a Fellow of the Royal Society, after being proposed for membership by Edmund Halley. No DOB, No DOD. Pic: document. | ||1689: Mathematician Joseph Raphson made a Fellow of the Royal Society, after being proposed for membership by Edmund Halley. No DOB, No DOD. Pic: document. | ||
||1756: Ernst Chladni born ... physicist and author. Pic. | ||1756: Ernst Chladni born ... physicist and author. Pic. | ||
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File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | ||
||1830: Johann Tobias Mayer dies ... physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. Reflecting circle. Pic. | ||1830: Johann Tobias Mayer dies ... physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. Reflecting circle. Pic. | ||
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File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] born. | File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] born. | ||
||1836: Pierre-Simon Girard dies ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to fluid mechanics and beam theory. Pic. | |||
||1840: Joseph Johann von Littrow dies ... astronomer. Pic. | ||1840: Joseph Johann von Littrow dies ... astronomer. Pic. | ||
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||2014: Anthony Dryden Marshall dies ... American CIA officer and diplomat. Pic search. | ||2014: Anthony Dryden Marshall dies ... American CIA officer and diplomat. Pic search. | ||
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3340 B.C.: The Solar eclipse of 3340 B.C. occurs. Geometric designs on a stone in Ireland may depict the eclipse; if so, the stone is the earliest known record of an eclipse.
1602: Scientist, inventor, and politician Otto von Guericke born. Von Guericke will pioneer the physics of vacuums, and discover an experimental method for demonstrating electrostatic repulsion.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Mark Twain born.
1888: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley born. He will invent the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contribute to the foundations of information theory.
1937: Film director and producer Ridley Scott born.
1954: In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.