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||1968 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (b. 1891) | ||1968 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (b. 1891) | ||
||Paul Hermann Scherrer (b. 25 September 1969) was a Swiss physicist. | |||
||1986 – Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) | ||1986 – Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) |
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1644: Astronomer and instrument maker Ole Rømer born. He will make the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1789: The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
1845: Judge Havelock With Glass is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," according to the Judge.
1893: Mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér born. He will help found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."
1992: NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. The probe will fail eleven months later.
2002: Steganographic analysis of Humpty Dumpty At Bat reveals previously unknown biography of Babe Ruth by Lewis Carroll.
2003: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton dies.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars says that the twenty-fifth anniversary of the launch of the Mars Observer is a bittersweet event, because the spacecraft will be lost eleven months later.