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||1728: Samuel Molyneux dies ... member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light. The aberration was the first definite evidence that the earth moved and that Copernicus and Kepler were correct. In addition to his astronomical works, Molyneux wrote about the natural history and other features of Ireland. Pic: http://www.npgprints.com/image/27750/john-brooks-robert-hunter-samuel-molyneux-madden | ||1728: Samuel Molyneux dies ... member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light. The aberration was the first definite evidence that the earth moved and that Copernicus and Kepler were correct. In addition to his astronomical works, Molyneux wrote about the natural history and other features of Ireland. Pic: http://www.npgprints.com/image/27750/john-brooks-robert-hunter-samuel-molyneux-madden | ||
||1743: Thomas Jefferson born. Pic. | |||
File:Richard_Trevithick.jpg|link=Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|1771: Engineer and explorer [[Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|Richard Trevithick]] born. He will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive. | File:Richard_Trevithick.jpg|link=Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|1771: Engineer and explorer [[Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|Richard Trevithick]] born. He will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive. | ||
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||1794: Jean Pierre Flourens born ... physiologist and academic ... Through the study of ablations on animals, he was the first to prove that the mind was located in the brain, not the heart. Pic. | ||1794: Jean Pierre Flourens born ... physiologist and academic ... Through the study of ablations on animals, he was the first to prove that the mind was located in the brain, not the heart. Pic. | ||
||1808: Antonio Meucci born ... engineer and inventor ... an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone. | ||1808: Antonio Meucci born ... engineer and inventor ... an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone. Pic. | ||
||1823: Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch born ... mathematician, born in Weimar, working in mathematical analysis. He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function. Pic. | ||1823: Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch born ... mathematician, born in Weimar, working in mathematical analysis. He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function. Pic. | ||
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1771: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick born. He will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.
1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.
1927: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs born. His work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.
1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1952: Extract of Radium opens state-of-the-art nightclub in Langley, Virginia. The signature cocktail, known as an MKUltra, is made of equal parts Extract of Radium and Clandestiphrine with a twist of Malvoleum.
1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.
2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".
2009: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.