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||1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (d. 1836) | ||1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (d. 1836) | ||
||Per Teodor Cleve (b. 10 February 1840) was a Swedish chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite. | |||
||1842 – Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (d. 1907) | ||1842 – Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (d. 1907) | ||
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1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster dies.
1900: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1957: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, performs new work based on Gnomon algorithm functions.
1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1967: New isotope of Plutonium discovered, revealing secret history of the Manhattan Project.