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File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1875: Astronomer [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] born.  He will perform the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1875: Astronomer [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] born.  He will perform the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.


||1895 – Wealthy Babcock, American mathematician and academic (d. 1990)
||Wealthy Consuelo Babcock (b. November 11, 1895) was an American mathematician. She was an outstanding teacher at the University of Kansas for thirty years; she was also the mathematics department's librarian. Pic.


||1904 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer and convicted spy (d. 1996)
||1904 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer and convicted spy (d. 1996)

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  • 1675: Mathematician Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).

    1675: Mathematician Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).

  • 1875: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher born. He will perform the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.

    1875: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher born. He will perform the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.

  • 1904: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead born. During the Second World War, he will work with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

    1904: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead born. During the Second World War, he will work with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

  • 1930: Physicist Hugh Everett III born. He will propose the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.

    1930: Physicist Hugh Everett III born. He will propose the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.

  • 1933: Cantor Parabola warns that crimes against mathematical constants are on the rise.

    1933: Cantor Parabola warns that crimes against mathematical constants are on the rise.

  • 2005: The Venus Express successfully performs its first trajectory correction maneuver.

    2005: The Venus Express successfully performs its first trajectory correction maneuver.

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