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||1632 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572) | ||1632 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572) | ||
||1828: | File:Karl Mikhailovich Peterson.jpg|link=Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|1828: Mathematician [[Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|Karl Mikhailovich Peterson]] born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space. | ||
||1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943) | ||1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943) | ||
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986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.
1828: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.
1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.