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| ||1512: Amerigo Vespucci dies ... cartographer and explorer. Pic.
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| File:Galileo by Leoni.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1632: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo]]'s ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' is published. | | File:Galileo by Leoni.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1632: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo]]'s ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' is published. |
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| File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1633: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] calls the [[House of Malevecchio]] "a dynasty built on [[Crimes against physical constants|crimes against physics]]." | | File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1633: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] calls the [[House of Malevecchio]] "a dynasty built on [[Crimes against physical constants|crimes against physics]]." |
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| ||1636: Santorio Santorio dies ... physiologist, physician, and professor, who introduced the quantitative approach into medicine. He is also known as the inventor of several medical devices, including the thermometer. Pic.
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| ||1796: Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet born ... astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. Pic.
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| File:Carl Wilhelm Borchardt.jpg|link=Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|1817: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|Carl Wilhelm Borchardt]] born. He will contribute to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange. | | File:Carl Wilhelm Borchardt.jpg|link=Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|1817: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|Carl Wilhelm Borchardt]] born. He will contribute to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange. |
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| ||1819: By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
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| ||1824: Pierre Janssen born ... astronomer who, along with English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere, and with some justification the element helium. Pic.
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| ||1842: Leonhard Sohncke born ... mathematician who classified the 65 space groups in which chiral crystal structures form, called Sohncke groups. Pic.
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| ||1849: Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin born ... mathematician. Pic.
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| ||1857: Heinrich Hertz born ... physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves theorized by James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. The unit of frequency — cycle per second — was named the "hertz" in his honor. Pic.
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| ||1868: David Devant born ... magician, shadowgraphist and film exhibitor. He is regarded by magicians as a consummate exponent of suave and witty presentation of stage illusion. Pic.
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| ||1875: Sir Charles Lyell dies ... geologist who popularized the revolutionary work of James Hutton. He wrote ''Principles of Geology'', which presented uniformitarianism–the idea that the Earth was shaped by the same scientific processes still in operation today–to the broad general public.
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| ||1879: Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted born ... chemist and academic. He introduced the protonic theory of acid-base reactions in 1923, simultaneously with Thomas Martin Lowry. Pic.
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| ||1882: Eric Gill dies ... sculptor and typeface designer ... erotica, incest. Pic.
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| ||1901: George Francis FitzGerald dies ... professor of "natural and experimental philosophy" (i.e., physics) at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, during the last quarter of the 19th century. FitzGerald is known for his work in electromagnetic theory and for the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction, which became an integral part of Einstein's special theory of relativity. Pic.
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| ||1902: Fritz Strassmann born ... chemist who, with Otto Hahn, identified barium in the residue after bombarding uranium with neutrons, results which, when confirmed, demonstrated the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission.. Pic: https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/fritz-strassmann
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| ||1903: Frank P. Ramsey born ... economist, mathematician, and philosopher. Pic.
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| ||1909: The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
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| ||1915: World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
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| ||1924: U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio address from the White House.
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| ||1931: Roy Lee Adler born ... mathematician. Adler studies dynamical systems, ergodic theory, symbolic and topological dynamics and coding theory. Pic.
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| File:Justin Virgilius Capră.jpg|link=Justin Capră (nonfiction)|1933: Engineer and inventor [[Justin Capră (nonfiction)|Justin Capră]] born. He will design fuel-efficient cars, unconventional engines, aircraft, and jet backpacks.
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| ||1938: Max Wien dies ... physicist and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena. Pic search.
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| ||1939: The Mask of Warka was discovered by the expedition of the German Archaeological Institute, led by Dr A. Nöldeke, in the city of Uruk south of modern Baghdad. The Mask was found in the Eanna (or Ianna) district of the city — so named for the goddess Inanna to whom the temples are dedicated.
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| ||1959: Karl Hessenberg dies ... mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. Pic search.
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| ||1974: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ... Land-diving on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu ... the jumper died. See Land Diving. Pic search: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/queen-elizabeth-ii-and-prince-philips-most-memorable-travels.html/
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| ||1975: Oskar Perron dies ... mathematician. He made numerous contributions to differential equations and partial differential equations, including the Perron method to solve the Dirichlet problem for elliptic partial differential equations. Pic.
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| ||1976: Michael Polanyi dies ... polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He argued that positivism supplies a false account of knowing, which if taken seriously undermines humanity's highest achievements.
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| ||1984: Maxwell Newman dies ... mathematician and codebreaker. Pic.
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| File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1987: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] dies. He was a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement. | | File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1987: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] dies. He was a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement. |
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| File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] uses chaos theory principles to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1994: Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
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| File:Kh-4b corona.jpg|link=Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|1995: The [[Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|Corona reconnaissance satellite program]], in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified. | | File:Kh-4b corona.jpg|link=Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|1995: The [[Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|Corona reconnaissance satellite program]], in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified. |
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| ||1997: In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
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| ||2002: Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
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| ||2018: Richard Edward Taylor born ... physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics." Pic.
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