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||1332: Ibn Khaldun born ... historiographer and historian. He is claimed as a forerunner of the modern disciplines of sociology and demography. Pic. | ||1332: Ibn Khaldun born ... historiographer and historian. He is claimed as a forerunner of the modern disciplines of sociology and demography. Pic (statue). | ||
||1525: Thomas Müntzer, German mystic and theologian dies ... a radical German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Luther and the Roman Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. Müntzer was foremost amongst those reformers who took issue with Luther’s compromises with feudal authority. He became a leader of the German peasant and plebeian uprising —commonly known as the German Peasants' War— of 1525, was captured after the battle of Frankenhausen, and was tortured and executed. | ||1525: Thomas Müntzer, German mystic and theologian dies ... a radical German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Luther and the Roman Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. Müntzer was foremost amongst those reformers who took issue with Luther’s compromises with feudal authority. He became a leader of the German peasant and plebeian uprising —commonly known as the German Peasants' War— of 1525, was captured after the battle of Frankenhausen, and was tortured and executed. Pic. | ||
File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Factotum and regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] executed. | File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Factotum and regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] executed. | ||
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1610: Factotum and regicide François Ravaillac executed.
1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
1931: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard and his assistant Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.