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File:German submarine U-505 shortly after capture.jpg|link=German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the [[German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|German submarine U-505]]: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century. | File:German submarine U-505 shortly after capture.jpg|link=German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the [[German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|German submarine U-505]]: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century. | ||
||William Thomas Astbury FRS (also Bill Astbury; 25 February 1898, Longton – 4 June 1961, Leeds) was an English physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules.[2] His work on keratin provided the foundation for Linus Pauling's discovery of the alpha helix. He also studied the structure for DNA in 1937 and made the first step in the elucidation of its structure. | |||
||1973 – Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician and academic (b. 1878) | ||1973 – Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician and academic (b. 1878) |
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1472: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler Nezahualcoyotl dies. He had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed.
1782: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain publishes analysis of Fermat's Last Theorem will provides a foundation for mathematicians fighting crimes against mathematical constants for hundreds of years after.
1783: The Montgolfier brothers give first public demonstration of balloon flight.
1943: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses punched card computation to forecast the position of German submarine U-505 a year in advance, giving the U.S. Navy a strategic advantage in the Second World War.
1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
2017: Reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars fully funded by Kickstarter.