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||1798: Thomas Sandby dies ... cartographer, painter, and architect. | ||1798: Thomas Sandby dies ... cartographer, painter, and architect. Pic. | ||
||1814: Gabriel Auguste Daubrée born ... geologist and engineer. | ||1814: Gabriel Auguste Daubrée born ... geologist and engineer. | ||
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||1868: Carlo Matteucci dies ... physicist and neurophysiologist. | ||1868: Carlo Matteucci dies ... physicist and neurophysiologist. | ||
||1868: Alexander Mitchell dies ... blind engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Alexander+Mitchell | |||
||1874: Rose O'Neill born ... cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. | ||1874: Rose O'Neill born ... cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. |
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1593: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1671: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
1764: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1907: Nuclear physicist J. Hans D. Jensen born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.
1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
2017: New computational analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.