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||1678: Nicolaas Kruik born ... astronomer and cartographer. Pic: map by Kruik. | ||1678: Nicolaas Kruik born ... astronomer and cartographer. Pic: map by Kruik. | ||
||1759: James Edward Smith born ... botanist and mycologist, founded the Linnean Society. | ||1759: James Edward Smith born ... botanist and mycologist, founded the Linnean Society. Pic. | ||
||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. | ||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. | ||
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||1982: At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. | ||1982: At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. | ||
||1987: Luis Federico Leloir dies ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1987: Luis Federico Leloir dies ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich postage stamp.jpg|link=Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|1987: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|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. | File:Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich postage stamp.jpg|link=Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|1987: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|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. | ||
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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.
2017: Signed first edition of Green Spiral sold for an undisclosed amount to "a prominent Gnomon algorithm theorist, a longtime resident of New Minneapolis, Canada."