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||1863 – Aleksey Krylov, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 1945) | ||1863 – Aleksey Krylov, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 1945) | ||
||1758 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (b. 1698) | |||
||1852 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (b. 1760) | |||
File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1892: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927. | File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1892: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927. | ||
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||1915 – A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production. | ||1915 – A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production. | ||
||1953 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (b. 1875) | |||
||1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors. | ||1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors. | ||
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||1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project. | ||1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project. | ||
||India: Three die as kite string slits their throats | ||2001 – Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist ad academic (b. 1919) | ||
||India: Three die as kite string slits their throats ... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37103668 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manja_(kite) | |||
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1892: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.