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||1470 – Martin Waldseemüller, German mapmaker (d. 1520) | |||
||1760 – Louis Godin, French astronomer and academic (b. 1704) | |||
||1792 – The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored. | |||
||1798 – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematicians born. | |||
||1816 – Carl Zeiss, German lens maker, created the Optical instrument (d. 1888) | |||
File:Joseph Nicollet.jpg|Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|1843: Mathematician and explorer [[Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|Joseph Nicollet]] dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s. | |||
||1847 – Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (d. 1921) | |||
File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1862: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, born. | File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1862: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, born. | ||
||1877 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1946) | |||
||1940 – George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer. | |||
||1997 – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars. | |||
||2001: Daniel M. Lewin, American mathematician and businessman, co-founded Akamai Technologies (b. 1970) | |||
||2007 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs. | |||
||2013 – Andrzej Trybulec, Polish mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1941) | |||
|File:Linus Pauling.jpg|link=Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|[[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]] says he is "flattered, but cannot possibly accept" offer to play [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] in planned film. | |File:Linus Pauling.jpg|link=Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|[[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]] says he is "flattered, but cannot possibly accept" offer to play [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] in planned film. | ||
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1843: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
1862: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, born.
