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File:Francesco_Bianchini.png|link=Francesco Bianchini (nonfiction)|1662: Astronomer and philosopher Francesco Bianchini born. Bianchini will be secretary of the Papal commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year. | File:Francesco_Bianchini.png|link=Francesco Bianchini (nonfiction)|1662: Astronomer and philosopher Francesco Bianchini born. Bianchini will be secretary of the Papal commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year. | ||
||1724: Franz Aepinus born ... astronomer and philosopher. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Posters2/Aepinus.html | ||1724: Franz Aepinus born ... astronomer and philosopher. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Posters2/Aepinus.html | ||
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||1972: Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon. | ||1972: Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon. | ||
||1974: John G. Bennett dies ... mathematician and technologist. Pic. | ||1974: John G. Bennett dies ... mathematician and technologist. Pic. | ||
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||2012: The Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 2 departed from the Sun–Earth L2 point in April 2012[27] and made a flyby of Toutatis on 13 December 2012, with closest approach being 3.2 kilometers and a relative velocity of 10.73 km/s, when Toutatis was near its closest approach to Earth.[10][28][29] It took several pictures of the asteroid, revealing it to be a dusty red/orange color. Pic. | ||2012: The Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 2 departed from the Sun–Earth L2 point in April 2012[27] and made a flyby of Toutatis on 13 December 2012, with closest approach being 3.2 kilometers and a relative velocity of 10.73 km/s, when Toutatis was near its closest approach to Earth.[10][28][29] It took several pictures of the asteroid, revealing it to be a dusty red/orange color. Pic. | ||
||2018: Timothy May dies ... technical and political writer, and was an electronic engineer and senior scientist at Intel in the company's early history. Pic: https://en.m.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/File:Tim_may.jpg#mw-jump-to-license | ||2018: Timothy May dies ... technical and political writer, and was an electronic engineer and senior scientist at Intel in the company's early history. Pic: https://en.m.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/File:Tim_may.jpg#mw-jump-to-license | ||
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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1662: Astronomer and philosopher Francesco Bianchini born. Bianchini will be secretary of the Papal commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
1907: Mathematician and adacemic Emmy Noether receives her Ph.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Erlangen, for a dissertation on algebraic invariants directed by Paul Gordan.
1921: Mathematician Max Noether dies. Noether contributed to algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He was the father of mathematician Emmy Noether.
2004: Computer scientist and academic David Wheeler dies. He contributed to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT); helped develop the subroutine; and gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.
2007: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom dies. He contributed to statistical turbulence theory and random process theory.