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||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.


||1888: Hans Thirring born ... theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1920. Together with the mathematician Josef Lense, he is known for the prediction of the Lense–Thirring frame dragging effect of general relativity in 1918. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=hans+thirring&oq=Hans+Thirring
||1888: Hans Thirring born ... theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1920. Together with the mathematician Josef Lense, he is known for the prediction of the Lense–Thirring frame dragging effect of general relativity in 1918. Pic search.


||1893: Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu born ... engineer and businessman.
||1893: Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu born ... engineer and businessman.
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File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|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 (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]] and the Nixon tapes.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|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 (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]] and the Nixon tapes.


||1978: Haim Ernst Wertheimer dies ... biochemist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Haim+Ernst+Wertheimer
||1978: Haim Ernst Wertheimer dies ... biochemist and academic. Pic search.


||1981: Beatrice Tinsley dies ... astronomer and cosmologist. Pic.
||1981: Beatrice Tinsley dies ... astronomer and cosmologist. Pic.
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File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|2001: The [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|2001: The [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.


||2007: Paul Cohen dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=paul+cohen+mathematician
||2007: Paul Cohen dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search.


File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|2011: [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] dies. She was one of the original programmers for the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer.
File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|2011: [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] dies. She was one of the original programmers for the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer.

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  • 1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

  • 2000: AESOP said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the Mir astronauts.

    2000: AESOP said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the Mir astronauts.

  • 2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.

    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.

    2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

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