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| ||1576: Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán. No pic online.
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| ||1593: Paul Luther dies ... physician, medical chemist, and alchemist. He developed several drugs, such as ''Unguentum ex nitro'', ''Magistrum perlarum'', ''Magistrum collorum'', and ''Aurum potabile''. Pic.
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| File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1618: Mathematician and astronomer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] discovers the third law of planetary motion. | | File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1618: Mathematician and astronomer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] discovers the third law of planetary motion. |
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| ||1688: Honoré Fabri (Honoratus Fabrius) dies ... Jesuit theologian. He was a mathematician, physicist and controversialist. Pic.
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| ||1717: Abraham Darby I dies ... iron master ... developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fuelled by coke rather than charcoal. This was a major step forward in the production of iron as a raw material for the Industrial Revolution. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Abraham+Darby+I
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| ||1723: Christopher Wren born ... physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral. Pic.
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| File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1775: An anonymous writer, thought by some to be [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]], publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery. | | File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1775: An anonymous writer, thought by some to be [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]], publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery. |
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| ||1804: Alvan Clark born ... astronomer and optician. Pic.
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| File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg|link=Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1822: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist [[Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Ignacy Łukasiewicz]] born. He will build the world's first oil refinery and invent the kerosene lamp.
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| ||1836: Michael Foster born ... physiologist. He will one of the secretaries of the Royal Society, and in that capacity exercise a wide influence on the study of biology in Britain. Pic.
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| ||1839: James Mason Crafts born ... chemist, mostly known for developing the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with Charles Friedel in 1876. Pic.
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| ||1839: Josephine Cochrane born ... inventor ... Dish washing machine. Pic: stamp.
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| ||1848: LaMarcus Adna Thompson born ... engineer and businessman, developed the roller coaster. Pic.
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| ||1853: Edward John Dent does ... clockmaker and inventor whose chronometers were noted for high accuracy. His patents in this field included compasses for navigation and surveying. He experimented with springs made of steel, gold and glass, and devices for counteracting the effects of temperature change upon timepiece mechanisms. As clockmaker to Queen Victoria, he was commissioned to build the Great Clock for the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament (known as Big Ben, although that is actually the nickname of its hour bell) which he began in the year he died. His son, Frederick Dent, completed the work the following year and it was installed in the tower in 1859. It continues to be recognised for its great accuracy of 4 seconds in a year. Pic.
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| ||1855: William Poole shot, killed ... boxer and gangster. Dead Rabbits. Pic.
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| ||1858: Rudolf Hermann Arndt Kohlrausch dies ... physicist. In 1856, with Wilhelm Weber (1804–1891), he demonstrated that the ratio of electrostatic to electromagnetic units produced a number that matched the value of the then known speed of light. This finding was instrumental towards Maxwell's conjecture that light is an electromagnetic wave. Pic.
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| ||1865: Ernest Vessiot born ... mathematician. Vessiot's work on Picard–Vessiot theory dealt with the integrability of ordinary differential equations. Pic.
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| ||1865: Frederic Goudy born ... type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style. Pic.
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| ||1868: Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka. Pic.
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| ||1877: Carl Mannich born ... chemist. From 1927 to 1943 he was professor for pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Berlin. His areas of expertise were keto bases, alcohol bases, derivatives of piperidine, papaverine, lactones and also Digitalis-glycosides. The Mannich reaction was named after his discovery of the mechanism in 1912. Pic search good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Mannich
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| File:Otto Hahn 1970.jpg|link=Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|1879: Chemist and academic [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] born. He will pioneer the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission. | | File:Otto Hahn 1970.jpg|link=Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|1879: Chemist and academic [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] born. He will pioneer the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission. |
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| ||1886: Edward Calvin Kendall born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1899: Elmer Keith born ... gun designer and author. Pic.
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| ||1889: John Ericsson dies ... engineer, designed the USS Monitor. Pic.
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| ||1895: Frederick Ellsworth Sickels dies ... inventor, cut-off valve for steam engines. Pic search art: https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m0bmgp82 and https://www.invent.org/inductees/frederick-ellsworth-sickels
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| File:Howard Aiken.jpg|link=Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and computer scientist [[Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|Howard H. Aiken]] born. He will design the Harvard Mark I computer.
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| ||1910: French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license. Pic.
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| File:Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich postage stamp.jpg|link=Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|1914: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich]] born. He will play a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, studying the effects of nuclear explosions. | | File:Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich postage stamp.jpg|link=Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|1914: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich]] born. He will play a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, studying the effects of nuclear explosions. |
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| ||1917: Ferdinand von Zeppelin dies ... German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company. Pic.
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| ||1920: George Batchelor born ... applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist. He is known for the Batchelor vortex and the Batchelor scale. Pic.
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| ||1922: Ralph H. Baer born ... video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey. Pic.
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| File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|1923: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] dies. He won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
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| ||1924: Georges Charpak born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1927: Gerard A. "Gerry" Salton born ... Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Salton was perhaps the leading computer scientist working in the field of information retrieval during his time, and "the father of Information Retrieval". His group at Cornell developed the SMART Information Retrieval System, which he initiated when he was at Harvard. Pic: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Department/Annual95/Faculty/Salton.html
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| ||1942: José Raúl Capablanca dies ... chess player and theoretician. Pic.
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| ||1946: Frederick William Lanchester dies ... polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations research. Pic.
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| ||1947: Michael S. Hart born ... author, founded Project Gutenberg. Pic.
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| ||1949: Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason. Pic.
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| ||1965: Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
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| File:One Veteran's Square - Media, Pennsylvania.jpg|link=Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI (nonfiction)|1971: Peace activists led break into the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, stealing over 1,000 classified documents. The activists mailed these documents anonymously to several US newspapers to expose numerous illegal FBI operations infringing on the First Amendment rights of American citizens. | | File:One Veteran's Square - Media, Pennsylvania.jpg|link=Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI (nonfiction)|1971: Peace activists led break into the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, stealing over 1,000 classified documents. The activists mailed these documents anonymously to several US newspapers to expose numerous illegal FBI operations infringing on the First Amendment rights of American citizens. |
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| ||1974: Olive Clio Hazlett dies ... mathematician who spent most of her career working for the University of Illinois. She mainly researched algebra, and wrote seventeen research papers on subjects such as nilpotent algebras, division algebras, modular invariants, and the arithmetic of algebras. WW2 Cryptanalyst. Pic: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/women-mathematicians/olive-c-hazlett-music-and-puzzles
| | File:Desperately Hanging Chad.jpg|link=Desperately Hanging Chad|'''''[[Desperately Hanging Chad]]2001: Premiere of ''''', an American comedy documentary film about punched cards and electoral reform. |
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| ||1974: Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
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| ||1975: Emory Leon Chaffee dies ... physicist. Pic. | |
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| ||1985: Reuben Louis Goodstein dies ... mathematician with a strong interest in the philosophy and teaching of mathematics. Pic search.
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| ||1988: Werner Hartmann dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
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| ||2004: Physicist Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar dies. He and his colleagues discovered the columnar phase of liquid crystals made of disc-shaped molecules. Through supramolecular assembly, the discs exhibit a mesophase which has a two-dimensional periodic order. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=sivaramakrishna+chandrasekhar
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| ||2005: Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes dies ... experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark. Pic: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Cesar_lattes_01.png
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| ||2010: Georgiy Timofeyevich Zatsepin dies ... astrophysicist known for his works in cosmic rays physics and neutrino astrophysics. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Georgiy+Zatsepin
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| ||2017: George Andrew Olah dies ... chemist and academic ... His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry." Pic.
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