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||File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1961: Scientist and combat surgeon [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] warns that U-2 incident may have released a new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1511 – Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, cartographer, and theologian (d. 1553) | |||
||1561 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish priest and mathematician (d. 1615) | |||
||1765: Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding born. He will discover Juno. | ||1765: Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding born. He will discover Juno. | ||
||1803 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1850) | |||
||1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England. | |||
||1895 – Joseph Banks Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (d. 1980) | |||
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". | File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". | ||
||1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the diesel engine (b. 1858) | |||
||1931 – James Cronin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016) | |||
||1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed. | |||
||1957 – Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. | |||
||1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912) | |||
File:Martin David Kruskal.jpg|link=David Kruskal (nonfiction)|2005: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|Martin David Kruskal]] uses theory of solitons to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Martin David Kruskal.jpg|link=David Kruskal (nonfiction)|2005: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|Martin David Kruskal]] uses theory of solitons to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion. | |||
||2013 – Harold Agnew, American physicist and engineer (b. 1921) | |||
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1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
2005: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter Martin David Kruskal uses theory of solitons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.