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File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687. | File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687. | ||
||1801: William Heberden dies ... physician and scholar. | ||1801: William Heberden dies ... physician and scholar. "In 1766, he recommended to the College of Physicians the first design of the Medical Transactions, in which he proposed to collect together such observations as might have occurred to any of their body, and were likely to illustrate the history or cure of diseases. The plan was soon adopted, and three volumes (were) successively laid before the public." Pic. | ||
||1818: Ezra Otis Kendall born ... professor, astronomer and mathematician. Pic. | ||1818: Ezra Otis Kendall born ... professor, astronomer and mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1836: Wilhelm Steinitz born ... chess player. Pic. | ||1836: Wilhelm Steinitz born ... chess player. Pic. | ||
||1860: Charlotte Cynthia Barnum born ... mathematician and social activist, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics from Yale University. No pic. | ||1860: Charlotte Cynthia Barnum born ... mathematician and social activist, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics from Yale University. No pic. | ||
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1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.
2019: Triumph voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.