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| ||1336: Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights. | | File:John Dee.jpg|link=John Dee (nonfiction)|1598: [[John Dee (nonfiction)|John Dee]] demonstrates the solar eclipse by viewing an image through a pinhole. Two versions from Ashmole and Aubrey give different details of who was present. Dee's Diary only contains the notation, "the eclips. A clowdy day, but great darkness about 9 1/2 maine". |
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| ||1670:Maria Margaretha Kirch born ... astronomer, and one of the first famous astronomers of her period due to her writings on the conjunction of the sun with Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter in 1709 and 1712 respectively. Calendar pic.
| | File:Friedrich Reinitzer.jpg|link=Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|1857: Botanist and chemist [[Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|Friedrich Reinitzer]] born. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, Reinitzer discovered the properties of what would later be called liquid crystals; although the discovery attracted attention, interest soon faded as no practical uses were found at the time. |
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| ||1682: Giovanni Battista Morgagni born ... anatomist and pathologist ... the father of modern anatomical pathology, who taught thousands of medical students from many countries during his 56 years as Professor of Anatomy at the University of Padua. His most significant literary contribution, the monumental five-volume On the Seats and Causes of Disease, embodied a lifetime of experience in anatomical dissection and observation, and established the fundamental principle that most diseases are not vaguely dispersed throughout the body, but originate locally, in specific organs and tissues. Pic.
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| File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1836: [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver. | |
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| ||1857: Friedrich Richard Reinitzer born ... botanist and chemist. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, he discovered properties of liquid crystals (named later by Otto Lehmann). Pic.
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| File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
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| ||1866: Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull – human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed. Pic.
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| ||1898: William Thomas Astbury born ... physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules. His work on keratin provided the foundation for Linus Pauling's discovery of the alpha helix. He also studied the structure for DNA in 1937 and made the first step in the elucidation of its structure. No pic.
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| ||1901: J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
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| ||1909: Geoffrey William Arnold Dummer born ... electronics engineer and consultant who is credited as being the first person to conceptualise and build a prototype of the integrated circuit, commonly called the microchip, in the late-1940s and early 1950s.
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| ||1919: Karl H. Pribram ... professor at Georgetown University, in the United States, an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and distinguished professor at Radford University. Board-certified as a neurosurgeon, Pribram did pioneering work on the definition of the limbic system, the relationship of the frontal cortex to the limbic system, the sensory-specific "association" cortex of the parietal and temporal lobes, and the classical motor cortex of the human brain. He worked with Karl Lashley at the Yerkes Primate Center of which he was to become director later. He was professor at Yale University for ten years and at Stanford University for thirty years. To the general public, Pribram is best known for his development of the holonomic brain model of cognitive function and his contribution to ongoing neurological research into memory, emotion, motivation and consciousness. Pic.
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| ||1919: Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
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| ||1920: Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy dies ... archaeologist and engineer.
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| ||1922: Ernst Gabor Straus born ... mathematician of Jewish origin who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Straus.html
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| ||1922: Henri Désiré Landru dies ... serial killer.
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| ||1926: Masatoşi Gündüz İkeda born ... mathematician of Japanese ancestry, known for his contributions to the field of algebraic number theory.
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| ||1928: Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
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| ||1933: The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be designed from the start of construction as an aircraft carrier.
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| ||1935: Oktay Sinanoğlu born ... chemist and academic.
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| ||1939: The first of 2 1⁄2 million Anderson air raid shelters appeared in North London.
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| ||1941: February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
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| ||1947: Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen dies ... physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908. Pic.
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| ||1950: George Minot dies ... physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||1951: The first Pan American Games were officially opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina by President Juan Perón.
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| ||1953: Sergei Winogradsky dies ... microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle-of-life concept. Pic.
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| ||1956: In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
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| ||1957: Bugs Moran dies ... American mob boss.
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| File:Theodor Svedberg.jpg|link=Theodor Svedberg (nonfiction)|1971: Chemist and academic [[Theodor Svedberg (nonfiction)|Theodor Svedberg]] dies. He was awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another. | | File:Theodor Svedberg.jpg|link=Theodor Svedberg (nonfiction)|1971: Chemist and academic [[Theodor Svedberg (nonfiction)|Theodor Svedberg]] dies. He was awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another. |
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| File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician and academic [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] dies. He "discovered" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he made notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem. | | File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician and academic [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] dies. He discovered mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he made notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem. |
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| ||1988: Bernard Ashmole dies ... archaeologist and historian.
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| ||1988: Kurt Mahler dies ... a mathematician.
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| ||1998: Samuel Curran dies ... physicist and the first Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde – the first of the new technical universities in Britain. He is the inventor of the scintillation counter, the proportional counter, and the proximity fuse. Pic: https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0190&type=P
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| File:Glenn Seaborg.jpg|link=Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|1999: Chemist [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Glenn T. Seaborg]] dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements. | | File:Glenn Seaborg.jpg|link=Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|1999: Chemist [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Glenn T. Seaborg]] dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements. |
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| ||2004: Donald Lewes Hings dies ... inventor. In 1937 he created a portable radio signaling system for his employer CM&S, which he called a "packset", but which later became known as the "Walkie-Talkie".
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| ||2009: Sige-Yuki Kuroda dies ... S.-Y. Kuroda, was Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Although a pioneer in the application of Chomskyan generative syntax to the Japanese language, he is known for the broad range of his work across the language sciences. For instance, in formal language theory, the Kuroda normal form for context-sensitive grammars bears his name. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=S.-Y.+Kuroda
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