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||1998: José Enrique Moyal dies ... physicist and engineer.
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File:Pond At Dawn.jpg|link=Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|2009: ''[[Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|Pond At Dawn]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


File:Martin Gardner.jpg|link=Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematics and science writer [[Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|Martin Gardner]] dies.  His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.
File:Martin Gardner.jpg|link=Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematics and science writer [[Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|Martin Gardner]] dies.  His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.


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  • 1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.

    1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.

  • 1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.

    1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.

  • 1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.

    1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.

  • 1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

    1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

  • 1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.

    1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.

  • 2009: Pond At Dawn voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2009: Pond At Dawn voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

  • 2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.

    2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.

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