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File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1131: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyám]] dies. | File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1131: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyám]] dies. | ||
File:Red Eyes.jpg|link=Red Eyes|1131: [[Red Eyes]] delivers eulogy for [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyám]]. | |File:Red Eyes.jpg|link=Red Eyes|1131: [[Red Eyes]] delivers eulogy for [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyám]]. | ||
||1580 – Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626) | ||1580 – Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626) | ||
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1131: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám dies.
1798: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani dies. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.
1820: Physicist John Tyndall dies of chloral hydrate overdose. He studied diamagnetism, and made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
1942: Mathematician and crime-fighter Nathan Jacobson uses structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe makes its closest approach to the planet Jupiter, at a range of about 132,252 kilometers (82,178 mi).
2016: London Has Swollen wins Sundance Film Festival award.
2023: Bingo tokens harvested from diagramaceous soil.