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||1879: Ignaz "Igo" Etrich born ... flight pioneer, pilot and fixed-wing aircraft developer. Pic: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igo_Etrich
||1879: Ignaz "Igo" Etrich born ... flight pioneer, pilot and fixed-wing aircraft developer. Pic: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igo_Etrich
File:Emil du Bois-Reymond.jpg|link=Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1881: Physician, physiologist, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Emil du Bois-Reymond]] uses experimental electrophysiology techniques to demonstrate a physiological basis for the energy exerted by [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


||1898: Jesse Wakefield Beams born ... physicist. Manhattan project, gravestone.
||1898: Jesse Wakefield Beams born ... physicist. Manhattan project, gravestone.
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||1930: Eugen Goldstein born ... physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton. Pic search.
||1930: Eugen Goldstein born ... physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton. Pic search.
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1932: [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.


||1935: Submarine ''Plongeur'' decommissioned. Pic.
||1935: Submarine ''Plongeur'' decommissioned. Pic.
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||1975: Gunnar Kangro dies ... mathematician and author. Pic.
||1975: Gunnar Kangro dies ... mathematician and author. Pic.


File:Martin David Kruskal.jpg|link=Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|2006: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|Martin David Kruskal]] uses theory of solitons to defeat the criminal mathematical function [[Killer Poke]] in single combat.
||1981: Physicist Heinrich Johann Welker dies.  Welker invented the "transistron", a transistor made at Westinghouse independently of the first successful transistor made at Bell Laboratories. He did fundamental work in III-V compound semiconductors, and paved the way for microwave semiconductor elements and laser diodes.


||1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
||1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
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File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|2016: Astronomer and academic [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|2016: Astronomer and academic [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
File:Swirl.jpg|link=Swirl (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Swirl (nonfiction)|Swirl]]'' is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

    1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

  • 1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. Mazzei will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

    1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. Mazzei will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

  • 1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. Chappe will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.

    1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. Chappe will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.

  • 2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

    2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

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