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||1184 BC – Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes. | ||1184 BC – Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes. | ||
File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1644: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: ''Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria'' ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air"). | |||
||1723 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788) | ||1723 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788) | ||
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1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.