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File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1473: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. | File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1473: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. | ||
||1553 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511) | |||
||1519 – Froben Christoph of Zimmern, Author of the Zimmern Chronicle (d. 1566) | |||
||1526 – Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist and academic (d. 1609) | |||
||1553 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511) | ||1553 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511) | ||
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File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] dies. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis". | File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] dies. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis". | ||
||Fritz Joachim Weyl (b. February 19, 1915) was born in Zurich, Switzerland. | ||Fritz Joachim Weyl (b. February 19, 1915) was born in Zurich, Switzerland. Today Weyl is regarded as a renowned mathematician. | ||
||1916 – Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838) | |||
||||Edmund Georg Hermann Landau (d. 19 February 1938) was a German born mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis. | |||
||1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps. | |||
||1942 – World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people. | ||1942 – World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people. | ||
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||1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417. | ||1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417. | ||
||1988 – André Frédéric Cournand, French-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895) | |||
||2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system. | ||2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system. | ||
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1473: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
1600: The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor Jean-Charles de Borda dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.
1897: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass dies. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".
1959: Carnivorous dirigibles spontaneously generate Extract of Radium.
2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most.
2017: Extract of Radium sponsors re-enactment of the Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina.
2017: Mathematician and dissident Igor Shafarevich dies. He made fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry.