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File:Karl Mikhailovich Peterson.jpg|link=Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|1828: Mathematician [[Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|Karl Mikhailovich Peterson]] born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space. | File:Karl Mikhailovich Peterson.jpg|link=Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|1828: Mathematician [[Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|Karl Mikhailovich Peterson]] born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space. | ||
||John Tebbutt born ... astronomer, famous for discovering the "Great Comet of 1861". Pic. | ||1834: John Tebbutt born ... astronomer, famous for discovering the "Great Comet of 1861". Pic. | ||
||1865: Pieter Zeeman born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1865: Pieter Zeeman born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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File:John F. Kennedy moon mission speech.jpg|link=|1961: Apollo program: U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|John F. Kennedy]] announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade. | File:John F. Kennedy moon mission speech.jpg|link=|1961: Apollo program: U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|John F. Kennedy]] announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade. | ||
||1981: Ruby Payne-Scott dies ... physicist and astronomer. | ||1981: Ruby Payne-Scott dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic. | ||
||2008: Ernst Stuhlinger dies ... German-American atomic, electrical, and rocket scientist. After being brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip, he developed guidance systems with Wernher von Braun's team for the US Army, and later was a scientist with NASA. He was also instrumental in the development of the ion engine for long-endurance space flight, and a wide variety of scientific experiments. Pic. | ||2008: Ernst Stuhlinger dies ... German-American atomic, electrical, and rocket scientist. After being brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip, he developed guidance systems with Wernher von Braun's team for the US Army, and later was a scientist with NASA. He was also instrumental in the development of the ion engine for long-endurance space flight, and a wide variety of scientific experiments. Pic. | ||
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986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.
1828: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.
1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.