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||1783: Friedrich Sertürner born ... chemist and pharmacist, best known for his discovery of morphine in 1804. Pic. | ||1783: Friedrich Sertürner born ... chemist and pharmacist, best known for his discovery of morphine in 1804. Pic. | ||
File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy. | File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist '''[[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]]''' born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy. | ||
||1820: Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet dies ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Pic (stirring). | ||1820: Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet dies ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Pic (stirring). | ||
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||2004: 99942 Apophis discovered ... a 370 meter diameter near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a probability of up to 2.7% that it would hit Earth on April 13, 2029. Additional observations provided improved predictions that eliminated the possibility of an impact on Earth or the Moon in 2029. | ||2004: 99942 Apophis discovered ... a 370 meter diameter near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a probability of up to 2.7% that it would hit Earth on April 13, 2029. Additional observations provided improved predictions that eliminated the possibility of an impact on Earth or the Moon in 2029. | ||
File:Apples (19 June 2022) 20230619_191734.jpg|link=Apples (19 June 2022)|2022: '''[[Apples (19 June 2022)|Apples]]'''. | |||
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1623: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal born. He will do pioneering work on calculating machines.
1771: Mathematician and logician Joseph Diez Gergonne born. He will contribute to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.
1795: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
2022: Apples.