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| ||1454: Amerigo Vespucci born ... cartographer and explorer. Pic.
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| ||1564: David Fabricius born ... theologian, cartographer and astronomer. Pic search dubious: https://www.google.com/search?q=david+fabricius+astronomer
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| ||1758: Franz Joseph Gall born ... neuroanatomist and physiologist. Pic.
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| ||1765: After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide. No DOB. Pic.
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| |File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1766: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and counteract [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1815: Electrical engineer and inventor [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] describes the first battery-operated clock in the ''Philosophical Magazine''. | | File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1815: Electrical engineer and inventor [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] describes the first battery-operated clock in the ''Philosophical Magazine''. |
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| ||1840: Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici born ... mathematician who became a professor in London. Pic.
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| ||1841: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The ''La Amistad'' case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally. Pic.
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| ||1842: The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush. Pic: map.
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| ||1846: Emil Gabriel Warburg born ... physicist. He carried out research in the areas of kinetic theory of gases, electrical conductivity, gas discharges, heat radiation, ferromagnetism and photochemistry. Pic.
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| File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1851: Physicist and chemist [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] dies. Ørsted discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism. | | File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1851: Physicist and chemist [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] dies. Ørsted discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism. |
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| ||1852: Constantin Marie Le Paige born ... mathematician. He worked on the theory of algebraic form, especially algebraic curves and surface and more particularly for his work on the construction of cubic surfaces. Pic.
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| ||1862: American Civil War: The USS ''Monitor'' and CSS ''Virginia'' fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
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| ||1870: Hugo Alexander Koch born ... inventor who conceived of and patented an idea for machine encryption — the rotor machine, although he was not the first to do so. He is sometimes erroneously credited as the originator of the Enigma machine. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hugo+Koch+inventor
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| ||1879: Carlo Tresca born ... newspaper editor, orator, and labor organizer who was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1910s. He is remembered as a leading public opponent of fascism, Stalinism, and Mafia infiltration of the trade union movement. Pic.
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| File:Walter Kohn.jpg|link=Walter Kohn (nonfiction)|1923: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate [[Walter Kohn (nonfiction)|Walter Kohn]] born. Kohn will develop density functional theory, which will make it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density. | | File:Walter Kohn.jpg|link=Walter Kohn (nonfiction)|1923: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate [[Walter Kohn (nonfiction)|Walter Kohn]] born. Kohn will develop density functional theory, which will make it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density. |
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| ||1925: Ernest Braun born ... physicist and academic ... scholar in technology policy and technology assessment. Pic.
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| File:Gerald Bull 1964.jpg|link=Gerald Bull (nonfiction)|1928: Engineer [[Gerald Bull (nonfiction)|Gerald Bull]] born. Bull will attempt to build artillery guns capable of launching satellites into orbit. | | File:Gerald Bull 1964.jpg|link=Gerald Bull (nonfiction)|1928: Engineer [[Gerald Bull (nonfiction)|Gerald Bull]] born. Bull will attempt to build artillery guns capable of launching satellites into orbit. |
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| ||1930: John Alan Robinson born ... philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist. Pic.
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| ||1933: Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies. Pic.
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| ||1940: Robert William Theodore Gunther dies ... historian of science, zoologist, and founder of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Robert+William+Theodore+Gunther
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| File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|1943: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] born. Raskin will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. | | File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|1943: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] born. Raskin will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. |
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| ||1954: Vagn Walfrid Ekman dies ... oceanographer and academic ... icebergs tend to drift not in the direction of the prevailing wind but at an angle of 20°-40° to the right. Bjerknes invited Ekman, still a student, to investigate the problem. Later, in 1905, Ekman published his theory of the Ekman spiral which explains the phenomenon in terms of the balance between frictional effects in the ocean and the Coriolis force, which arises from moving objects in a rotating environment, like planetary rotation. Pic.
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| ||1956: Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
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| ||1960: Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Belding+Hibbard+Scribner
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| ||1961: Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
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| ||1974: The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, causing the module to miss Mars.
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| ||1974: Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. dies ... pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1975: Joseph Dunninger dies ... known as "The Amazing Dunninger", was one of the most famous and proficient mentalists of all time. He was one of the pioneer performers of magic on radio and television. A debunker of fraudulent mediums, Dunninger claimed to replicate through trickery all spiritualist phenomena. Pic.
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| File:Max_Delbrück.jpg|link=Max Delbrück (nonfiction)|1981: Biophysicist [[Max Delbrück (nonfiction)|Max Delbrück]] dies. Delbrück helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s; his ideas stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time.
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| ||1982: "Krononauts" hosted an event in Baltimore, Maryland asking time-travelers to meet and demonstrate future science methods of Time travel.
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| ||1983: Ulf von Euler dies ... physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1993: Max August Zorn dies ... mathematician and academic ... an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a method used in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as vector spaces, ordered sets and the like. Pic.
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| ||1997: Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
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| ||2003: Rolf Hagedorn dies ... theoretical physicist who worked at CERN. He is known for the idea that hadronic matter has a "melting point". The Hagedorn temperature is named in his honor. Pic.
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| ||2011: Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
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| ||2016: Reinhold Remmert dies ... mathematician. Born in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, he studied mathematics, mathematical logic and physics in Münster. He established and developed the theory of complex-analytic spaces in joint work with Hans Grauert. Pic.
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| ||2021: John Polkinghorne dies - theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent and leading voice explaining the relationship between science and religion. Pic.
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