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||1759 – James Edward Smith, English botanist and mycologist, founded the Linnean Society (d. 1828) | ||1759 – James Edward Smith, English botanist and mycologist, founded the Linnean Society (d. 1828) | ||
||1823 | ||1823: Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns European powers not to interfere in the Americas. | ||
File:Paul Du Bois-Reymond Heidelberg.jpg|link=Paul du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician [[Paul du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond]] born. He will work on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics. | File:Paul Du Bois-Reymond Heidelberg.jpg|link=Paul du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician [[Paul du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond]] born. He will work on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics. | ||
||1845 | ||1845: Manifest destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. | ||
||1859 | ||1859: John Brown dies ... activist and murderer. | ||
||1863: Charles Edward Ringling born ... businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus. | ||1863: Charles Edward Ringling born ... businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus. | ||
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||1899: Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought. | ||1899: Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought. | ||
||1902: Hubert Stanley Wall born ... mathematician who worked primarily in the field of continued fractions. He is also known as one of the leading proponents of the Moore method of teaching. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Hubert-Stanley-Wall | |||
||1906: Peter Carl Goldmark born ... engineer. | ||1906: Peter Carl Goldmark born ... engineer. | ||
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1409: The University of Leipzig opens. Famous future alumni will include Leibniz, Goethe, Ranke, Nietzsche, Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and Tycho Brahe.
1831: Mathematician Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond born. He will work on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics.
1939: Physicist and crime-fighter Enrico Fermi publishes evidence that nuclear weapons will be vulnerable to crimes against chemistry.
1942: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1966: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer dies. He made contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
1987: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich dies. He played a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, associated closely in nuclear weapons testing to study the effects of nuclear explosion from 1943 until 1963.
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.