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1868: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
1869: Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Astonishing Illustration of the Year.
1895: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1896: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky born. He will work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
1963: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov uses new theory of quantum electronics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||1873: Leo Frobenius born ... ethnologist and archaeologist.
-||1888: Alexander Friedmann born ... physicist and mathematician.
+||1892: Ernest Mouchez dies ... French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887. Pic.
-||1892: Ernest Amédée Barthélemy Mouchez dies ... French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887.
 ||1893: Eduard Čech born ... mathematician. His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Čech compactification (in topology) and the notion of Čech cohomology. Pic.