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File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy. | File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy. | ||
||1754: Jurij Vega born ... mathematician, physicist and artillery officer. | ||1754: Jurij Vega born ... mathematician, physicist and artillery officer. Pic. | ||
||1769: William 'Strata' Smith born ... was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. At the time his map was first published he was overlooked by the scientific community; his relatively humble education and family connections prevented him from mixing easily in learned society. Financially ruined, Smith spent time in debtors' prison. It was only late in his life that Smith received recognition for his accomplishments, and became known as the "Father of English Geology". Pic. | ||1769: William 'Strata' Smith born ... was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. At the time his map was first published he was overlooked by the scientific community; his relatively humble education and family connections prevented him from mixing easily in learned society. Financially ruined, Smith spent time in debtors' prison. It was only late in his life that Smith received recognition for his accomplishments, and became known as the "Father of English Geology". Pic. | ||
||1775: American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia. | ||1775: American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia. Pic. | ||
||1795: Bernt Michael Holmboe born ... Norwegian mathematician. Pic. | ||1795: Bernt Michael Holmboe born ... Norwegian mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1806: After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home. | ||1806: After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home. Pic. | ||
||1816: Carlo Amoretti dies ... ecclesiastic, scholar, writer, and scientist. Pic. | ||1816: Carlo Amoretti dies ... ecclesiastic, scholar, writer, and scientist. Pic. | ||
||1816: Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt dies ... pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist. | ||1816: Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt dies ... pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist. Pic. | ||
||1892: Norman Robert Pogson born ... astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets. He introduced a mathematical scale of stellar magnitudes with the ratio of two successive magnitudes being the fifth root of one hundred (~2.512) and referred to as Pogson's ratio. Pic. | ||1892: Norman Robert Pogson born ... astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets. He introduced a mathematical scale of stellar magnitudes with the ratio of two successive magnitudes being the fifth root of one hundred (~2.512) and referred to as Pogson's ratio. Pic. | ||
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1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1977: The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from Table Manners sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
