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| ||1722: Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche born ... astronomer, best known for his observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769.
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| File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy. | | File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy. |
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| ||1754: Jurij Vega born ... mathematician, physicist and artillery officer.
| | File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. Noether will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. |
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| ||1769: William 'Strata' Smith born ... was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. At the time his map was first published he was overlooked by the scientific community; his relatively humble education and family connections prevented him from mixing easily in learned society. Financially ruined, Smith spent time in debtors' prison. It was only late in his life that Smith received recognition for his accomplishments, and became known as the "Father of English Geology". Pic.
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| ||1775: American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
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| ||1795: Bernt Michael Holmboe born ... Norwegian mathematician. Pic.
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| ||1806: After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
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| ||1816: Carlo Amoretti dies ... ecclesiastic, scholar, writer, and scientist. Pic.
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| ||1816: Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt dies ... pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist.
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| ||1892: Norman Robert Pogson born ... astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets. He introduced a mathematical scale of stellar magnitudes with the ratio of two successive magnitudes being the fifth root of one hundred (~2.512) and referred to as Pogson's ratio. Pic.
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| ||1842: Susan Jane Cunningham born ... mathematician.
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| ||1849: Andrés Manuel del Río Fernández dies ... scientist and naturalist who discovered compounds of vanadium in 1801. Pic.
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| ||1862: Eduard Study born ... mathematician known for work on invariant theory of ternary forms (1889) and for the study of spherical trigonometry. Pic.
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| ||1868: The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
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| ||1870: Raoul Bricard born ... engineer and a mathematician. He is best known for his work in geometry, especially descriptive geometry and scissors congruence, and kinematics, especially mechanical linkages. Pic: Bricard octahedron. No pic online: https://www.google.com/search?q=raoul+bricard
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| ||1881: Hermann Staudinger born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1883: Kitaōji Rosanjin born ... pseudonym for a noted artist and epicure during the early to mid-Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was Kitaōji Fusajirō (北大路 房次郎), but he is best known by his artistic name, Rosanjin. A man of many talents, Rosanjin was also a calligrapher, ceramicist, engraver, painter, lacquer artist and restaurateur.
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| ||1888: Hans Thirring born ... theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1920. Together with the mathematician Josef Lense, he is known for the prediction of the Lense–Thirring frame dragging effect of general relativity in 1918.
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| ||1893: Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu born ... engineer and businessman.
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| ||1897: John Lighton Synge born ... mathematician and physicist, whose seven decade career included significant periods in Ireland, Canada, and the USA. He was a prolific author and influential mentor, and is credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity.
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| ||1898: Albert Percival Rowe born ... a radar pioneer and university vice-chancellor. A British physicist and senior research administrator, he played a major role in the development of radar before and during World War II. Pic: http://www.purbeckradar.org.uk/biography/rowe_jimmy.htm
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| ||1907: Daniel Bovet born ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||1907: Hassler Whitney born ... mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, characteristic classes, and geometric integration theory.
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| ||1909: Charles Werner born ... cartoonist.
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| ||1912: Wernher von Braun born ... physicist and engineer.
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| ||1914: Milbourne Christopher born ... magician and author.
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| ||1924: Kenneth N. Stevens born ... engineer and academic. Stevens was head of the Speech Communication Group[2] in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and was one of the world's leading scientists in acoustic phonetics. Pic.
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| ||1924: Bette Nesmith Graham born ... inventor, invented Liquid Paper.
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| ||1924: Thomas Corwin Mendenhall dies ... autodidact physicist and meteorologist.
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| ||1928: Jean E. Sammet born ... computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962. She was also one of the developers of the influential COBOL programming language. Pic.
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| ||1933: The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
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| ||1934: Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev born ... theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the theory of the quantum mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction (with Victor Popov) of Faddeev–Popov ghosts. Pic.
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| ||1943: James Earl Baumgartner born ... mathematician who worked in set theory, mathematical logic and foundations, and topology. Pic.
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| ||1946: Gilbert Newton Lewis dies ... physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs; his Lewis dot structures and other contributions to valence bond theory have shaped modern theories of chemical bonding.
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| ||1963: Thoralf Skolem dies ... mathematician and logician.
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| File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | | File:John_Lighton_Synge.jpg|link=John Lighton Synge (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician, physicist, and academic [[John Lighton Synge (nonfiction)|John Lighton Synge]] born. He will be a prolific author and influential mentor, and be credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity. |
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| ||1965: NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). | | File:Middle-earth Farm.jpg|link=Middle-earth Farm|1945: First publication of '''''[[Middle-earth Farm]]''''', an allegorial novel by George Orwell and J.R.R. Tolkien. |
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| ||1974: Léon Rosenfeld dies ... physicist and Marxist. Pic.
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| File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1977: The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]] and the Nixon tapes. | | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1977: The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]] and the Nixon tapes. |
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| ||1978: Haim Ernst Wertheimer dies ... biochemist and academic.
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| ||1981: Beatrice Tinsley dies ... astronomer and cosmologist. Pic.
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| ||1983: Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
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| ||1985: Richard Beeching dies ... physicist and engineer.
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| File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.
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| File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|2001: The [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years. | | File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|2001: The [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years. |
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| ||2007: Paul Cohen dies ... mathematician and theorist.
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| File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|2011: [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] dies. She was one of the original programmers for the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer.
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| ||2013: Boris Berezovsky dies ... mathematician and businessman.
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| File:Enter_or_Exit_midsize_sketch.jpg|2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from ''[[Table Manners]]'' sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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