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File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and businessman [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and businessman [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.


||1875: Issai Schur born ... mathematician and academic.
||1864: Nicholas Callan dies ... priest and physicist. Best known for his work on the induction coil.  Pic.
 
||1875: Issai Schur born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1877: Frederick Gardner Cottrell born ... physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist.
||1877: Frederick Gardner Cottrell born ... physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist.
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||1927: Alfred George Greenhill dies ... mathematician. He he will be one of the world's leading experts on applications of elliptic integrals in electromagnetic theory. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_George_Greenhill
||1927: Alfred George Greenhill dies ... mathematician. He he will be one of the world's leading experts on applications of elliptic integrals in electromagnetic theory. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_George_Greenhill


||1927: Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
||1927: Fritz Lang's futuristic film ''Metropolis'' is released in Germany.


File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1938: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] born.
File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1938: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] born.


||1941: Issai Schur dies ... mathematician and academic.
||1941: Issai Schur dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]], bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]], bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.

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