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||1921: Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld born ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||1921: Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld born ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||
||1926: André Jagendorf | André Jagendorf|link=André Jagendorf (nonfiction)|1926: Botanist and academic [[André Jagendorf (nonfictio)|André Jagendorf]] born. Jagendorf provided direct evidence that chloroplasts synthesize adenosine triphosphate (ATP) using the chemiosmotic mechanism proposed by Peter Mitchell. | ||
||1931: The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'état attempt. | ||1931: The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'état attempt. | ||
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1687: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaus I Bernoulli born. Bernoulli will introduce a successful resolution to the St. Petersburg paradox.
1914: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner born. His interests will include stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.
- André Jagendorf
1926: Botanist and academic André Jagendorf born. Jagendorf provided direct evidence that chloroplasts synthesize adenosine triphosphate (ATP) using the chemiosmotic mechanism proposed by Peter Mitchell.
1958: National Pareidolia Day declared in the United States.
1969: Mathematician and academic Wacław Sierpiński dies. He made important contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and topology.