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||1722: Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche born ... astronomer, best known for his observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769. | ||1722: Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche born ... astronomer, best known for his observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769. Pic. | ||
File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy. | File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy. | ||
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||1892: Norman Robert Pogson born ... astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets. He introduced a mathematical scale of stellar magnitudes with the ratio of two successive magnitudes being the fifth root of one hundred (~2.512) and referred to as Pogson's ratio. Pic. | ||1892: Norman Robert Pogson born ... astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets. He introduced a mathematical scale of stellar magnitudes with the ratio of two successive magnitudes being the fifth root of one hundred (~2.512) and referred to as Pogson's ratio. Pic. | ||
||1842: Susan Jane Cunningham born ... mathematician. | ||1842: Susan Jane Cunningham born ... mathematician. Cunningham was instrumental in the founding and development of Swarthmore College. Pic. | ||
||1849: Andrés Manuel del Río Fernández dies ... scientist and naturalist who discovered compounds of vanadium in 1801. Pic. | ||1849: Andrés Manuel del Río Fernández dies ... scientist and naturalist who discovered compounds of vanadium in 1801. Pic. | ||
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1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1977: The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from Table Manners sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
