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File:Antoine Deparcieux.jpg|link=Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and engineer [[Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|Antoine Deparcieux]] born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials. | File:Antoine Deparcieux.jpg|link=Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and engineer [[Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|Antoine Deparcieux]] born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials. | ||
||1704: John Locke dies ... physician and philosopher. Pic. | ||1704: John Locke dies ... physician and philosopher. Pic. | ||
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||1871: Quirino Majorana born ... experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena | ||1871: Quirino Majorana born ... experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena | ||
||1873: Mathematician Karl Frithiof Sundman born - used analytic methods to prove the existence of a convergent infinite series solution to the three-body problem in two papers published in 1907 and 1909. | |||
||1880: Astrophysicist Wilhelm Anderson born. Anderson studied the physical structure of the stars. Pic. | ||1880: Astrophysicist Wilhelm Anderson born. Anderson studied the physical structure of the stars. Pic. | ||
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||2009: NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program. | ||2009: NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program. | ||
||2014: An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. | ||2014: An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. | ||
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1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1841: Chemist and academic Johan August Arfwedson dies. Arfwedson discovered the element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.
1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.
1919: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.