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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.

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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.
-File:Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr.jpg|link=Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|1740: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer [[Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr]] publishes ''Atlas Coelestis in quo Algorithmus Gnomonis'', his landmark study of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.
 ||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:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1829: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 ||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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 ||2014: Anthony Dryden Marshall dies ... American CIA officer and diplomat. Pic search.
-File:Green Ring.jpg|link=Green Ring|2017: ''[[Green Ring]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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