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||1408: Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow. | ||1408: Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow. | ||
||1624: Gaspard Bauhin dies ... botanist and physician. Pic. | ||1624: Gaspard Bauhin dies ... botanist and physician. Pic. | ||
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||1770: James Stirling dies ... mathematician and surveyor. Pic grave plate. Pic: https://alchetron.com/James-Stirling-(mathematician) | ||1770: James Stirling dies ... mathematician and surveyor. Pic grave plate. Pic: https://alchetron.com/James-Stirling-(mathematician) | ||
||1784: Phillis Wheatley dies ... Senegal-born slave, later American poet. No DOB. Pic. | ||1784: Phillis Wheatley dies ... Senegal-born slave, later American poet. No DOB. Pic. | ||
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||1848: California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California. | ||1848: California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California. | ||
||1859: Louis Poinsot dies | File:Louis_Poinsot.jpg|link=Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician and physicist [[Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|Louis Poinsot]] dies. Poinsot invented geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple. | ||
||1863: Paul Painlevé born ... mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France. Pic. | ||1863: Paul Painlevé born ... mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France. Pic. | ||
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File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The crewless American ship ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]'' is found by the Canadian brig ''Dei Gratia''. The ship had been abandoned for nine days but was only slightly damaged. | File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The crewless American ship ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]'' is found by the Canadian brig ''Dei Gratia''. The ship had been abandoned for nine days but was only slightly damaged. | ||
||1891: Paul Kogerman born ... chemist and academic, founder of modern research in oil shale. Pic. | ||1891: Paul Kogerman born ... chemist and academic, founder of modern research in oil shale. Pic. | ||
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||1911: Academic and inventor Warren Seymour Johnson dies. His multi-zone pneumatic control system solved the problem. Johnson’s system for temperature regulation was adopted worldwide for office buildings, schools, hospitals, and hotels – essentially any large building with multiple rooms that required temperature regulation. Pic. | ||1911: Academic and inventor Warren Seymour Johnson dies. His multi-zone pneumatic control system solved the problem. Johnson’s system for temperature regulation was adopted worldwide for office buildings, schools, hospitals, and hotels – essentially any large building with multiple rooms that required temperature regulation. Pic. | ||
||1915: Ren Xinmin born ... aerospace engineer. Pic search | ||1915: Ren Xinmin born ... aerospace engineer. Pic search. | ||
||1916: Hilary Koprowski born ... virologist and immunologist, created the world's first effective live polio vaccine. Pic. | ||1916: Hilary Koprowski born ... virologist and immunologist, created the world's first effective live polio vaccine. Pic. | ||
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||1922: Joachim "Jim" Lambek born ... Professor of Pure Mathematics. Pic. | ||1922: Joachim "Jim" Lambek born ... Professor of Pure Mathematics. Pic. | ||
||1924: Abram Fet born ... mathematician, philosopher, translator. Pic search. | |||
||1924: Abram Fet born ... mathematician, philosopher, translator. Pic search | |||
||1931: Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin. | ||1931: Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin. | ||
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||1949: Alfred James Lotka dies ... mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics. An American biophysicist, Lotka is best known for his proposal of the predator–prey model, developed simultaneously but independently of Vito Volterra. The Lotka–Volterra model is still the basis of many models used in the analysis of population dynamics in ecology. Pic. | ||1949: Alfred James Lotka dies ... mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics. An American biophysicist, Lotka is best known for his proposal of the predator–prey model, developed simultaneously but independently of Vito Volterra. The Lotka–Volterra model is still the basis of many models used in the analysis of population dynamics in ecology. Pic. | ||
||1953: William Sterling Parsons | File:Rear Admiral Deak Parsons.jpg|link=William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|1953: [[William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|American naval officer William Sterling "Deak" Parsons]] dues. Parsons served as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II. | ||
||1955: Glenn L. Martin dies ... pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company. Pic. | ||1955: Glenn L. Martin dies ... pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company. Pic. | ||
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||2009: Carel S. Scholten born ... physicist and a pioneer of computing. Birthday missing. Pic: http://www-set.win.tue.nl/UnsungHeroes/heroes/scholten-loopstra.html | ||2009: Carel S. Scholten born ... physicist and a pioneer of computing. Birthday missing. Pic: http://www-set.win.tue.nl/UnsungHeroes/heroes/scholten-loopstra.html | ||
||2019: Engineer and inventor George Laurer dies. He held 25 patents and developed the Universal Product Code (UPC) in 1973. He devised the coding and pattern used for the UPC, based on Joe Woodland's more general idea for barcodes. Pic. | ||2019: Engineer and inventor George Laurer dies. He held 25 patents and developed the Universal Product Code (UPC) in 1973. He devised the coding and pattern used for the UPC, based on Joe Woodland's more general idea for barcodes. Pic. | ||
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1708: Mathematician Seki Takakazu dies. He created a new algebraic notation system and, motivated by astronomical computations, did work on infinitesimal calculus and Diophantine equations. Seki laid foundations for the subsequent development of Japanese mathematics known as wasan; he has been described as "Japan's Newton".
1859: Mathematician and physicist Louis Poinsot dies. Poinsot invented geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.
1872: The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia. The ship had been abandoned for nine days but was only slightly damaged.
1901: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg born. He will introduce the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.
1932: German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1953: American naval officer William Sterling "Deak" Parsons dues. Parsons served as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
1999: Mathematician Nathan Jacobson dies. He conducted research on the structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions--a subject closely related to the theory of algebras--which transformed the approach to classical results and broke ground for solutions to problems inaccessible by previous methods.
2008: Chemist and composer George Brecht dies. He was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil.