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||1894: Vibert Douglas born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. She will research the spectra of A and B type stars and the Stark Effect using the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. Pic search.
||1894: Vibert Douglas born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. She will research the spectra of A and B type stars and the Stark Effect using the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. Pic search.


||1912: Reuben Louis Goodstein born ... mathematician with a strong interest in the philosophy and teaching of mathematics. Pic search
||1912: Reuben Louis Goodstein born ... mathematician with a strong interest in the philosophy and teaching of mathematics. Pic search.


||1913: Roger Gaudry born ... chemist and businessman. Pic.
||1913: Roger Gaudry born ... chemist and businessman. Pic.

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  • 1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

    1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

  • 1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

    1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

  • 1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

    1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

  • 1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.

    1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.

  • 1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

    1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

  • 1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

    1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

  • 1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".

    1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".

  • 1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

    1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

  • 2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

    2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Pilgrim stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

    2017: Signed first edition of Pilgrim stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

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