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| ||1654: Hippolytus Guarinonius dies ... physician and polymath. Pic.
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| File:Evariste Galois.jpg|link=Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|1832: Mathematician and social activist [[Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|Évariste Galois]] from wounds suffered in a duel. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections. | | File:Evariste Galois.jpg|link=Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|1832: Mathematician and social activist [[Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|Évariste Galois]] from wounds suffered in a duel. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections. |
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| ||1841: George Green dies ... mathematical physicist who wrote ''An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism'' (Green, 1828). The essay introduced several important concepts, among them a theorem similar to the modern Green's theorem, the idea of potential functions as currently used in physics, and the concept of what are now called Green's functions. Green was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism and his theory formed the foundation for the work of other scientists. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Green_(English_shipbuilder).jpg Pic search.
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| ||1852: Julius Richard Petri born ... microbiologist, invented the Petri dish. Pic.
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| ||1859: The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
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| ||1861: William Peddie born ... physicist and applied mathematician, known for his research on colour vision and molecular magnetism. Pic.
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| ||1877: Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion born ... astronomer. Pic search.
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| ||1880: Heinrich Greinacher born - physicist. He is regarded as an original experimenter and is the developer of the magnetron and the Greinacher multiplier.
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| ||1889: Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
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| ||1909: The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
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| ||1910: Elizabeth Blackwell dies ... physician and educator. She played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social and moral reformer. She acted as a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine. Pic.
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| ||1911: Maurice Allais born ... economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved. | | File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved. |
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| ||1918: Alexander Mitscherlich dies ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic.
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| ||1918: Lloyd Quarterman born ... chemist. Pic search.
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| ||1921: Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll was given as 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
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| ||1926: John George Kemeny born ... mathematician, computer scientist, and educator He will co-develop the BASIC programming language, and pioneer the use of computers in college education. Pic.
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| ||1927: The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
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| ||1931: Eugène Cosserat dies ... mathematician and astronomer. He did early work on the theory of micropolar elasticity. https://www.google.com/search?q=Eugène+Cosserat
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| ||1932: Jay Miner born ... computer scientist and engineer. Pic.
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| ||1942: World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
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| ||1957: Orange Herald test detonated ... nuclear weapon. At the time it was reported as a H-bomb, although in fact it was a large boosted fission weapon. Pic.
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| ||1976: Jacques Monod dies ... biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1986: James Rainwater dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1988: Alfred Brousseau born ... educator, photographer and mathematician and was known mostly as a founder of the Fibonacci Association and as an educator. Pic: http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/brousseau.html
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| ||1996: Timothy Leary dies ... psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Pic.
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| ||2000: Erich Kähler dies ... mathematician with wide-ranging interests in geometry and mathematical physics, who laid important mathematical groundwork for algebraic geometry and for string theory. Pic.
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| ||2005: Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was "Deep Throat". Pic.
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| ||2006: Raymond Davis, Jr. dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||2013: The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries. Pic.
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| ||2013: Gerald E. Brown dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
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| ||2013: Tim Samaras dies ... engineer and storm chaser. Pic.
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| ||2017: Muon g-2: The magnet receives its first beam of muons in its new location. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Storage_ring.jpg
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