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||1768: Joseph-Nicolas Delisle born ... astronomer and cartographer. Pic.
||1768: Joseph-Nicolas Delisle born ... astronomer and cartographer. Pic.


||1792: The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
||1792: The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored. Pic.


File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1798: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] born. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds will include what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.
File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1798: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] born. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds will include what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.


||1816: Carl Zeiss, German lens maker born ... created the Optical instrument.
||1816: Carl Zeiss, German lens maker born ... created the Optical instrument. Pic.


File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Jacobi]] appointed professor. After a four hour disputation in Latin, Jacobi was appointed professor at the University of Konigsberg. While there he inaugurated what was then a complete novelty in mathematics: research seminars for the more advanced students and interested colleagues.  
File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Jacobi]] appointed professor. After a four hour disputation in Latin, Jacobi was appointed professor at the University of Konigsberg. While there he inaugurated what was then a complete novelty in mathematics: research seminars for the more advanced students and interested colleagues.  
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File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|1997: NASA's [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] reaches Mars.
File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|1997: NASA's [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]] reaches Mars.


||2001: Daniel M. Lewin, American mathematician and businessman, co-founded Akamai Technologies (b. 1970)
||1998: Project FUBELT: The highlights of Project FUBELT are cited in declassified US government documents released by the National Security Archive ... the codename for the secret Central Intelligence Agency operations that were to prevent Salvador Allende's rise to power before his confirmation and to promote a military coup in Chile.
 
||2001: Daniel M. Lewin dies ... mathematician and businessman, co-founded Akamai Technologies.


||2007: Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
||2007: Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.

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