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||1881: Hermann Staudinger born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1881: Hermann Staudinger born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. | File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. Noether will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. | ||
||1883: Kitaōji Rosanjin born ... pseudonym for a noted artist and epicure during the early to mid-Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was Kitaōji Fusajirō (北大路 房次郎), but he is best known by his artistic name, Rosanjin. A man of many talents, Rosanjin was also a calligrapher, ceramicist, engraver, painter, lacquer artist and restaurateur. Pic. | ||1883: Kitaōji Rosanjin born ... pseudonym for a noted artist and epicure during the early to mid-Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was Kitaōji Fusajirō (北大路 房次郎), but he is best known by his artistic name, Rosanjin. A man of many talents, Rosanjin was also a calligrapher, ceramicist, engraver, painter, lacquer artist and restaurateur. 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. Noether will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1897: Mathematician, physicist, and academic John Lighton Synge born. He will be a prolific author and influential mentor, and be credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity.
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.