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File:Antoine Deparcieux.jpg|link=Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and engineer [[Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|Antoine Deparcieux]] born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
File:Antoine Deparcieux.jpg|link=Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and engineer [[Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|Antoine Deparcieux]] born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1704: John Locke dies ... physician and philosopher. Pic.
||1704: John Locke dies ... physician and philosopher. Pic.
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||2009: NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
||2009: NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
File:Pond At Dawn.jpg|link=Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|2013: ''[[Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|Pond At Dawn]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


||2014: An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.
||2014: An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.

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  • 1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.

    1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.

  • 1841: Chemist and academic Johan August Arfwedson dies. Arfwedson discovered the element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.

    1841: Chemist and academic Johan August Arfwedson dies. Arfwedson discovered the element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.

  • 1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.

    1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.

  • 1919: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.

    1919: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.

  • 2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.

    2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.

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