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||1606 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian physician and philologist (b. 1530) | |||
||1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism. | |||
||1878 – Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and academic (d. 1952) | |||
||1893 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986) | |||
||1906 – A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (d. 1987) | |||
||1913 – V. Appapillai, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (d. 2001) | |||
||1924 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese biologist and geneticist (d. 1994) | |||
||1927 – Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid, American mathematician and theorist (d. 1985) | |||
||1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. | |||
||1940 – Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre. | |||
||1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles. | |||
||1994 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese biologist and geneticist (b. 1924) | |||
File:Gerard Butler 2013.jpg|link=Gerard Butler (nonfiction)|1969: Actor [[Gerard Butler (nonfiction)|Gerard Butler]] born. | File:Gerard Butler 2013.jpg|link=Gerard Butler (nonfiction)|1969: Actor [[Gerard Butler (nonfiction)|Gerard Butler]] born. | ||
||1996 – Bobbie Vaile, Australian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1959) | |||
||2001 – War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States. | |||
||2010 – Allan Sandage, American astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1926) | |||
||2012 – A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific | |||
File:Alexander Grothendieck.jpg|link=Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|2014: Mathematician and theorist [[Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|Alexander Grothendieck]] dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. | File:Alexander Grothendieck.jpg|link=Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|2014: Mathematician and theorist [[Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|Alexander Grothendieck]] dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. | ||
||2015 – WT1190F, a temporary satellite of Earth, impacts just southeast of Sri Lanka. | |||
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1969: Actor Gerard Butler born.
2014: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.