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||1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery. | ||1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery. | ||
File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]]. | |||
||1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801) | ||1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801) | ||
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1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.