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||1394: Prince Henry the Navigator born ... patron of exploration. Pic.
||1394: Prince Henry the Navigator born ... patron of exploration. Pic.


||1519: Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
||1519: Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth. Pic.


||1634: Kazimierz Łyszczyński born ... philosopher ... Executed for writing "De non existentia Dei" (On the non-existence of God)
||1634: Kazimierz Łyszczyński born ... philosopher ... Executed for writing "De non existentia Dei" (On the non-existence of God). Pic: Postage stamp.


||1675: John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England. Pic.
||1675: John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England. Pic.
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||1822: Jules Antoine Lissajous born ... mathematician and academic.
||1822: Jules Antoine Lissajous born ... mathematician and academic.


||1826 – Theodore Judah, American engineer, founded the Central Pacific Railroad (d. 1863)
||1826: Theodore Judah born ... engineer, founded the Central Pacific Railroad.


||1853 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1774)
||1853: Christian Leopold von Buch dies ... geologist and paleontologist.


||1837 – The city of Chicago is incorporated.
||1837: The city of Chicago is incorporated.


||1847 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (d. 1904)
||1847: Carl Josef Bayer born ... chemist and academic.


||1862 – Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
||1862: Jacob Robert Emden born ... astrophysicist and meteorologist.


||1866 – Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1931)
||1866: Eugène Cosserat born ... mathematician and astronomer.


||1871 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 1945)
||1871: Boris Galerkin born ... mathematician and engineer.


||1876 – Theodore Hardeen, Hungarian-American magician (d. 1945)
||1876: Theodore Hardeen born ... magician.


||1877 – Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor (d. 1963)
||1877: Garrett Morgan born ... inventor.


File:Tolman and Einstein.jpg|link=Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|1881: Physicist and chemist [[Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|Richard C. Tolman]] born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
File:Tolman and Einstein.jpg|link=Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|1881: Physicist and chemist [[Richard C. Tolman (nonfiction)|Richard C. Tolman]] born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.


||1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
||1882: Britain's first electric trams run in east London.


||1889 – Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1967)
||1889: Oscar Chisini born ... mathematician and statistician.


||1893 – Charles Herbert Colvin, American engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company (d. 1985)
||1893: Charles Herbert Colvin born ... engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company.


||1901 – Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist, invented the g-suit (d. 1986)
||1901: Wilbur R. Franks born ... scientist, invented the g-suit.


||1903 – Malcolm Dole, American chemist and academic (d. 1990)
||1903: Malcolm Dole born ... chemist and academic.


||1903 – John Scarne, American magician and author (d. 1985)
||1903: John Scarne born ... magician and author.


||1904 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (d. 1968)
||1904: George Gamow born ... physicist and cosmologist.


||1909: George Edward Holbrook born ... chemist and engineer.
||1909: George Edward Holbrook born ... chemist and engineer.
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File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1931: US Navy says [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] cannot be tamed, should be put down.
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1931: US Navy says [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] cannot be tamed, should be put down.


||1932 – Ed Roth, American illustrator (d. 2001)
||1932: Ed Roth born ... illustrator.


||1934 – Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist and academic (d. 2015) Janez Strnad (March 4, 1934 – November 28, 2015) was a Slovene physicist and popularizer of natural science.
||1934: Janez Strnad born ... physicist and academic, popularizer of natural science.


||1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player and author (d. 2010)
||1935: Bent Larsen born ... chess player and author.


||1944 – Louis Buchalter, American mob boss (b. 1897)
||1944: Louis Buchalter dies ... mob boss.


||1944 – Louis Capone, Italian-American gangster (b. 1896)
||1944: Louis Capone dies ... gangster.


||Felix Ehrenhaft (d. 4 March 1952) was an Austrian physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. He was known for his maverick and controversial style. Pic.
||1952: Felix Ehrenhaft dies ... physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. He was known for his maverick and controversial style. Pic.


||Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (d. 4 March 1952) was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s.
||1952: Charles Scott Sherrington dies ... neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s.


||1954 – Mark Chorvinsky, American magician and author (d. 2005)
||1954: Mark Chorvinsk born ... magician and author.


||1967: Michel Plancherel dies ... mathematician. He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis. Pic.
||1967: Michel Plancherel dies ... mathematician. He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis. Pic.

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