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||1883: Louis François Clément Breguet dies ... physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. Pic. | ||1883: Louis François Clément Breguet dies ... physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. Pic. | ||
||1890: Olive Clio Hazlett born ... mathematician who spent most of her career working for the University of Illinois. She mainly researched algebra, and wrote seventeen research papers on subjects such as nilpotent algebras, division algebras, modular invariants, and the arithmetic of algebras. WW2 Cryptanalyst. Pic | ||1890: Olive Clio Hazlett born ... mathematician who spent most of her career working for the University of Illinois. She mainly researched algebra, and wrote seventeen research papers on subjects such as nilpotent algebras, division algebras, modular invariants, and the arithmetic of algebras. WW2 Cryptanalyst. Pic search. | ||
||1894: Sir John Lennard-Jones born ... mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He may be regarded as the initiator of modern computational chemistry. Pic. | ||1894: Sir John Lennard-Jones born ... mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He may be regarded as the initiator of modern computational chemistry. Pic. | ||
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||1904: The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. | ||1904: The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. | ||
||1905: Henry Berthold Mann born ... professor of mathematics and statistics at Ohio State University. Mann proved the Schnirelmann-Landau conjecture in number theory. Pic | ||1905: Henry Berthold Mann born ... professor of mathematics and statistics at Ohio State University. Mann proved the Schnirelmann-Landau conjecture in number theory. Pic search. | ||
||1910: Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau born ... chemical engineer - pencillin factory. Pic. | ||1910: Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau born ... chemical engineer - pencillin factory. Pic. | ||
||1915: Robert Alexander Rankin born ... mathematician who worked in analytic number theory. Pic | ||1915: Robert Alexander Rankin born ... mathematician who worked in analytic number theory. Pic search. | ||
||1921: José Ádem born ... mathematician who worked in algebraic topology, and proved the Ádem relations between Steenrod squares. Pic. | ||1921: José Ádem born ... mathematician who worked in algebraic topology, and proved the Ádem relations between Steenrod squares. Pic. | ||
||1927: Mikhail Mikhailovich Postnikov born ... mathematician, known for his work in algebraic and differential topology. Pic | ||1927: Mikhail Mikhailovich Postnikov born ... mathematician, known for his work in algebraic and differential topology. Pic search. | ||
||1930: Ellen Hayes dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic. | ||1930: Ellen Hayes dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic. | ||
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||1973: A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado. | ||1973: A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado. | ||
||1974: C. P. Ramanujam dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic | ||1974: C. P. Ramanujam dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1975: Rex Stout dies ... detective novelist. | ||1975: Rex Stout dies ... detective novelist. | ||
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||1981: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. | ||1981: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. | ||
||1905: Thomas Townsend Brown born ... physicist and engineer, ionic propulsion. Pic search. | |||
File:Richard Smalley.jpg|link=Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|1995: [[Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|Richard Smalley]] uses carbon nanotubes to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemical constants]]. | File:Richard Smalley.jpg|link=Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|1995: [[Richard Smalley (nonfiction)|Richard Smalley]] uses carbon nanotubes to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemical constants]]. | ||
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||1994: Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. | ||1994: Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. | ||
||1998: Dan Pedoe dies ... mathematician and geometer. Pic | ||1998: Dan Pedoe dies ... mathematician and geometer. Pic search. | ||
||1999: Robert Mills dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search | ||1999: Robert Mills dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search. | ||
File:Tractor.jpg|link=Tractor (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Tractor (nonfiction)|Tractor]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Tractor.jpg|link=Tractor (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Tractor (nonfiction)|Tractor]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1654: Blaise Pascal writes to Pierre de Fermat, praising him for his solution to the Problem of the Points, about which they had exchanged seven previous letters.
1675: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1678: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort born. He will write Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which will introduce the combinatorial study of derangements.
1853: Mark Twains interviews Wallace War-Heels. Twain will later call it "the interview of a lifetime."
1854: Physician Golding Bird dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1995: Richard Smalley uses carbon nanotubes to detect and prevent crimes against chemical constants.
2016: Tractor voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a minute of silence in memory of Mariner 9, which was switched off forty-five years ago.
