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||1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising. | ||1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising. | ||
File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Melvin Slipher (nonfiction)|1875: Astronomer [[Vesto Melvin Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] born. He will perform the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe. | |||
||1895 – Wealthy Babcock, American mathematician and academic (d. 1990) | ||1895 – Wealthy Babcock, American mathematician and academic (d. 1990) | ||
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1675: Mathematician Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
1875: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher born. He will perform the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
1904: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead born. During the Second World War, he will work with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
1930: Physicist Hugh Everett III born. He will propose the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.
1933: Cantor Parabola warns that crimes against mathematical constants are on the rise.
2005: The Venus Express successfully performs its first trajectory correction maneuver.