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||1523 – Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer and diplomat (d. 1596). Pic. | ||1523 – Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer and diplomat (d. 1596). Pic. | ||
||1622 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1703). | |||
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]]. | File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]]. | ||
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||1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time. | ||1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time. | ||
||1967 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890). Pic. | |||
||1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities. | ||1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities. | ||
File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1976: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world. | File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1976: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world. | ||
||2004 – Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician and academic (b. 1936). No pic. | |||
||2009 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks. | ||2009 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks. | ||
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1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão uses Gnomon algorithm functions to design improved airship.
1869: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin born. He will be known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
1870: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels publishes autobiography.
1900: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand dies. He worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.
1910: Havelock and Nikola Tesla share Nobel Prize in Physics for research into electrical field modulation and data transmission.
1976: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist Howard Hughes dies. He was known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.