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File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1541: Physician and archaeologist [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]] born. He will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones. | File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1541: Physician and archaeologist [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]] born. He will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones. | ||
File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] born. He will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins. | |||
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] discovers superconductivity. | File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] discovers superconductivity. | ||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company [[Rhizolith Group]] announces world tour. | File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company [[Rhizolith Group]] announces world tour. | ||
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Revision as of 19:58, 17 March 2017
1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. He will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. He will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company Rhizolith Group announces world tour.