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File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles. | File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles. | ||
||Jesse Ramsden (d. 5 November 1800) was a British mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker. His reputation was built on the engraving and design of dividing engines which allowed high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths in instruments. He produced instruments for astronomy that were especially well-known for maritime use where they were needed for the measurement of latitudes and for his surveying instruments which were widely used for cartography and land survey. Pic. | |||
||1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia. | ||1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia. |
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1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1879: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell dies. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.
1975: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.
2015: NASA announced that data from the MAVEN probe shows that the deterioration of Mars’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates second anniversary of NASA announced that data from the MAVEN probe shows that the deterioration of Mars’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms.