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File:Denis Papin.jpg|link=Denis Papin (nonfiction)|1713: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor [[Denis Papin (nonfiction)|Denis Papin]] dies. He invented the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine. | File:Denis Papin.jpg|link=Denis Papin (nonfiction)|1713: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor [[Denis Papin (nonfiction)|Denis Papin]] dies. He invented the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine. | ||
||1723: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek dies ... microscopist and biologist. | ||1723: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek dies ... microscopist and biologist. Pic. | ||
File:Johann Heinrich Lambert.jpg|link=Johann Heinrich Lambert (nonfiction)|1728: Polymath [[Johann Heinrich Lambert (nonfiction)|Johann Heinrich Lambert]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy, and map projections. | File:Johann Heinrich Lambert.jpg|link=Johann Heinrich Lambert (nonfiction)|1728: Polymath [[Johann Heinrich Lambert (nonfiction)|Johann Heinrich Lambert]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy, and map projections. | ||
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||1865: Johann Franz Encke dies ... astronomer and academic ... worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations of the planet Saturn. | ||1865: Johann Franz Encke dies ... astronomer and academic ... worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations of the planet Saturn. | ||
||1865: Arthur James Arnot born ... engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station. | ||1865: Arthur James Arnot born ... engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=arthur+james+arnot | ||
||1873: Lee de Forest ... engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube. | ||1873: Lee de Forest ... engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube. | ||
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1713: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin dies. He invented the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.
1728: Polymath Johann Heinrich Lambert born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy, and map projections.
1735: Leonhard Euler presents his solution to the Königsberg bridge problem – whether it was possible to find a route crossing each of the seven bridges of the city of Königsberg once and only once – in a lecture to his colleagues at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.
1743: Chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
1896: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1919: Physicist, chemist, and criminal investigator Marie Curie discovers a Gnomon algorithm function which detects and prevents Extract of Radium outbreaks.
1930: Philo Farnsworth is granted a ptent (U.S. 1,773,980) for his television system . This is his first patent, with a description of his image dissector tube, and his most important contribution to the development of television.
1974: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.
1995: Writer and peace activist John Brunner dies.
2018: Blue Foliage 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.