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| ||1648: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon born ... mystic. | | File:Richard_Trevithick.jpg|link=Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|1771: Engineer and explorer [[Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|Richard Trevithick]] born. Trevithick will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive. |
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| ||1728: Samuel Molyneux dies ... member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light. The aberration was the first definite evidence that the earth moved and that Copernicus and Kepler were correct. In addition to his astronomical works, Molyneux wrote about the natural history and other features of Ireland. Pic: http://www.npgprints.com/image/27750/john-brooks-robert-hunter-samuel-molyneux-madden | | File:Herbert Osborn Yardley.jpg|link=Herbert Yardley (nonfiction)|1889: Cryptologist and author [[Herbert Yardley (nonfiction)|Herbert Yardley]] born. Yardley will found and lead the Black Chamber, a secret American government cryptographic organization which will break Japanese diplomatic codes, furnishing American negotiators with significant information during the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922. |
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| File:Richard_Trevithick.jpg|link=Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|1771: Engineer and explorer [[Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|Richard Trevithick]] born. He will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive. | | File:Charles Renard.jpg|link=Charles Renard (nonfiction)|1905: Engineer [[Charles Renard (nonfiction)|Charles Renard]] commits suicide. Renard pioneer the design and construction of airships. He also proposed a set of preferred numbers now known as the Renard series. |
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| ||1780: Alexander Mitchell born ... blind engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Alexander+Mitchell | | File:Mendel Sachs.jpg|link=Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|1927: Theoretical physicist [[Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|Mendel Sachs]] born. Sachs' work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity. |
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| ||1794: Jean Pierre Flourens born ... physiologist and academic ... Through the study of ablations on animals, he was the first to prove that the mind was located in the brain, not the heart. Pic. | | File:MKUltra proposal.jpg|link=Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the secret drug research program [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]], intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control. |
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| ||1808: Antonio Meucci born ... engineer and inventor ... an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.
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| ||1823: Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch born ... mathematician, born in Weimar, working in mathematical analysis. He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function. Pic.
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| ||1835: William Herapath (1796–1868) was an English analytical chemist and political reformer. Herapath was expert witness for the prosecution, and made a reputation by his analysis...On 13 April 1835, at the trial of a woman named Burdock for poisoning by arsenic her lodger, Mrs. Clara Ann Smith, at Bristol
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| ||1850: Arthur Matthew Weld Downing born ... astronomer.
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| ||1851: Robert Abbe born ... surgeon and radiologist.
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| ||1851: William Quan Judge born ... occultist and theosophist.
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| ||1853: Leopold Gmelin dies ... chemist and academic ... worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test.
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| ||1870: The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
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| ||1871: Alexander Forbes Irvine Forbes born ... astronomer.
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| ||1879: Francesco Severi born ... mathematician.
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| ||1889: Herbert Yardley born ... cryptologist and author.
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| ||1892: Robert Watson-Watt born ... engineer, invented the Radar. Pic.
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| ||1894: Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi died ... historian of mathematics and aristocrat. Pic.
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| ||1899: Alfred Mosher Butts born ... architect and game designer, created Scrabble.
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| ||1905: Bruno Benedetto Rossi born ... experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays.
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| ||1909: Stanislaw Ulam born ... mathematician and academic.
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| ||1915: Max Jammer born ... physicist and philosopher of physics. Pic.
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| ||1919: Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
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| File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1926: Aviator [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.
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| File:Mendel Sachs.jpg|link=Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|1927: Theoretical physicist [[Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|Mendel Sachs]] born. His work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.
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| File:Seamus Heaney 1970.jpg|link=Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer [[Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|Seamus Heaney]] born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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| ||1941: Annie Jump Cannon dies ... astronomer and academic.
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| ||1943: World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
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| ||1945: Ernst Cassirer born ... philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science. Pic.
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| ||1948: In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah.
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| File:Phagey the Extract of Radium mascot.png|link=Extract of Radium|1952: [[Extract of Radium]] opens state-of-the-art nightclub in Langley, Virginia. The signature cocktail, known as an MKUltra, is made of equal parts [[Extract of Radium]] and Clandestiphrine with a twist of [[Malvoleum]].
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| File:MKUltra proposal.jpg|link=Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]].
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| File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1954: Latest generation of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.
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| ||1974: Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
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| ||1976: The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
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| ||1992: Feza Gürsey dies ... mathematician and physicist.
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| File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|2008: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".
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| File:The Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|2009: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] uses portable wormhole generator to escape [[The Nacreum]].
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