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||1635 – Robert Hooke, English physicist and chemist (d. 1703) | |||
||1804 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher (d. 1872) | |||
File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1818: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] dies. He invented descriptive geometry, and did pioneering work in differential geometry. | File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1818: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] dies. He invented descriptive geometry, and did pioneering work in differential geometry. | ||
File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|1974: New form of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] discovered, causing wave of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1874 – Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (d. 1945) | |||
||1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French-American painter and sculptor (d. 1968) | |||
||1902 – Sir Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1994) | |||
||1915 – Charles Hard Townes, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015) | |||
||1922 – Jacques Piccard, Belgian-Swiss oceanographer and engineer (d. 2008) | |||
||1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011) | |||
||1932 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C. | |||
||1939 – The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered. | |||
||1968 – Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879) | |||
|File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|1974: New form of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] discovered, causing wave of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon. | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon. | ||
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the House Judiciary Committee members murdered, as a lesson to the others." | File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the House Judiciary Committee members murdered, as a lesson to the others." | ||
||1980 – Rose Rand, Austrian-born American logician and philosopher (b. 1903) | |||
||1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Starbird dies | ||1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Starbird dies | ||
||1996 – The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man. | |||
||1999 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) | |||
||2000 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918) | |||
||2002 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) | |||
||2004 – Francis Crick, English biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) | |||
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Revision as of 10:13, 22 July 2017
1818: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge dies. He invented descriptive geometry, and did pioneering work in differential geometry.
1974: Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the House Judiciary Committee members murdered, as a lesson to the others."