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||1838: Camille Jordan born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1838: Camille Jordan born ... mathematician and academic. | ||
||1855: Gyula Vályidies born ... mathematician and theoretical physicist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, known for his work on mathematical analysis, geometry, and number theory. Pic. | |||
||1865: Julio Garavito Armero born ... astronomer, mathematician, and engineer. | ||1865: Julio Garavito Armero born ... astronomer, mathematician, and engineer. | ||
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||1970: Max Born dies ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1970: Max Born dies ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
File:Hexahedron.jpg|link=Cube (nonfiction)|1972: [[Cube (nonfiction)|Cube]] deliver lecture on [[Geometry (nonfiction)|geometry]]. | File:Hexahedron.jpg|link=Cube (nonfiction)|1972: Artificially intelligent [[Cube (nonfiction)|Cube]] deliver lecture on [[Geometry (nonfiction)|geometry]]. | ||
||1972: United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program. | ||1972: United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program. | ||
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1625: Astronomer Simon Marius dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
1723: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute born. She will predict the return of Halley's Comet, calculate the timing of a solar eclipse, and construct a group of catalogs for the stars.
1812: Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to build a new type of scrying engine.
1895: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.
