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||1845: Manifest destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
||1845: Manifest destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.


||1859: John Brown dies ... activist and murderer.
||1859: John Brown dies ... abolitionist who advocated the use of armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. Pic.


||1863: Charles Edward Ringling born ... businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus.
||1863: Charles Edward Ringling born ... businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus. Pic (poster).


||1873: Karl Heinrich Gräffe dies ... mathematician. He is known for having been the first to enunciate a method to approximate the roots of any polynomial, a method known today as the Dandelin-Gräffe method. No pics online.
||1873: Karl Heinrich Gräffe dies ... mathematician. He is known for having been the first to enunciate a method to approximate the roots of any polynomial, a method known today as the Dandelin-Gräffe method. No pics online.
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||1885: George Minot born ... physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1885: George Minot born ... physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1891: Otto Dix born ... painter and illustrator.
||1891: Otto Dix born ... painter and illustrator. Pic.


||1899: Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
||1899: Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
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||1902: Hubert Stanley Wall born ... mathematician who worked primarily in the field of continued fractions. He is also known as one of the leading proponents of the Moore method of teaching. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Hubert-Stanley-Wall
||1902: Hubert Stanley Wall born ... mathematician who worked primarily in the field of continued fractions. He is also known as one of the leading proponents of the Moore method of teaching. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Hubert-Stanley-Wall


||1906: Peter Carl Goldmark born ... engineer.
||1906: Peter Carl Goldmark born ... engineer ... instrumental in developing the long-playing microgroove 33-1/3 rpm phonograph disc. Pic.
 
||1908: Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.


||1914: Robert Palmer Dilworth born ... mathematician. His primary research area was lattice theory; his biography at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive states "it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was one of the main factors in the subject moving from being merely a tool of other disciplines to an important subject in its own right". He is best known for Dilworth's theorem (Dilworth 1950) relating chains and antichains in partial orders; he was also the first to study antimatroids. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Robert-P-Dilworth/6000000035405400337
||1914: Robert Palmer Dilworth born ... mathematician. His primary research area was lattice theory; his biography at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive states "it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was one of the main factors in the subject moving from being merely a tool of other disciplines to an important subject in its own right". He is best known for Dilworth's theorem (Dilworth 1950) relating chains and antichains in partial orders; he was also the first to study antimatroids. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Robert-P-Dilworth/6000000035405400337
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|File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1924: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] predicts that ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' will be released in 1973.
|File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1924: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] predicts that ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' will be released in 1973.


||1927: Paul Heinrich von Groth dies ... scientist who systematically classified minerals and founded the journal Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie.
||1927: Paul Heinrich von Groth dies ... scientist who systematically classified minerals and founded the journal ''Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie''. Pic.


||1930: Georges François Paul Marie Matheron born ... mathematician and geologist, known as the founder of geostatistics and a co-founder (together with Jean Serra) of mathematical morphology. Pic.
||1930: Georges François Paul Marie Matheron born ... mathematician and geologist, known as the founder of geostatistics and a co-founder (together with Jean Serra) of mathematical morphology. Pic.


||1930: Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million (equivalent to $2,150,000,000 in 2016) public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
||1930: Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million (equivalent to $2,150,000,000 in 2016) public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy. Pic.


||1934: Jakob Meisenheimer dies ... chemist. He made numerous contributions to organic chemistry, the most famous being his proposed structure for a group of compounds now named Meisenheimer complex. Pic.
||1934: Jakob Meisenheimer dies ... chemist. He made numerous contributions to organic chemistry, the most famous being his proposed structure for a group of compounds now named Meisenheimer complex. Pic.
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||1982: Georg Robert Döpel dies ... experimental nuclear physicist. Pic.
||1982: Georg Robert Döpel dies ... experimental nuclear physicist. Pic.


||1982: At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
||1982: At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. Pic (artificial heart).


||1987: Luis Federico Leloir dies ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1987: Luis Federico Leloir dies ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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||1993: Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
||1993: Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.


||1995: Mária Telkes dies ... biophysicist and chemist.
||1995: Mária Telkes dies ... biophysicist, scientist and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies. Telkes is considered one of the founders of solar thermal storage systems, earning her the nickname "the Sun Queen". Pic.


||2001: Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
||2001: Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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  • 1409: The University of Leipzig opens. Famous future alumni will include Leibniz, Goethe, Ranke, Nietzsche, Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and Tycho Brahe.

    1409: The University of Leipzig opens. Famous future alumni will include Leibniz, Goethe, Ranke, Nietzsche, Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and Tycho Brahe.

  • 1831: Mathematician Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond born. He will work on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics.

    1831: Mathematician Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond born. He will work on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics.

  • 1939: Physicist and crime-fighter Enrico Fermi publishes evidence that nuclear weapons will be vulnerable to crimes against chemistry.

    1939: Physicist and crime-fighter Enrico Fermi publishes evidence that nuclear weapons will be vulnerable to crimes against chemistry.

  • 1942: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

    1942: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

  • 1966: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer dies. He made contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.

    1966: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer dies. He made contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.

  • 1987: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich dies. He played a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, associated closely in nuclear weapons testing to study the effects of nuclear explosion from 1943 until 1963.

    1987: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich dies. He played a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, associated closely in nuclear weapons testing to study the effects of nuclear explosion from 1943 until 1963.

  • 2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

    2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Green Spiral sold for an undisclosed amount to "a prominent Gnomon algorithm theorist, a longtime resident of New Minneapolis, Canada."

    2017: Signed first edition of Green Spiral sold for an undisclosed amount to "a prominent Gnomon algorithm theorist, a longtime resident of New Minneapolis, Canada."

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