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File:Japanese counting board.jpg|link=Rod calculus (nonfiction)|1762: First use of Japanese [[Rod calculus (nonfiction)|rod calculus]] to confirm the [[APTO]] Accords. | File:Japanese counting board.jpg|link=Rod calculus (nonfiction)|1762: First use of Japanese [[Rod calculus (nonfiction)|rod calculus]] to confirm the [[APTO]] Accords. | ||
||1795: Gérard Paul Deshayes born ... geologist and chronologist. Pic search | ||1795: Gérard Paul Deshayes born ... geologist and chronologist. Pic search book cover: https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12459618/gerard-paul_deshayes/ | ||
File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] born either today or yesterday. | File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] born either today or yesterday. | ||
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||1890: Jacques-Louis Soret dies ... chemist who in 1878, along with Marc Delafontaine, first observed holmium spectroscopically. Soret was also responsible for correctly working out the chemical composition of ozone as being three oxygen atoms bound together. Pic. | ||1890: Jacques-Louis Soret dies ... chemist who in 1878, along with Marc Delafontaine, first observed holmium spectroscopically. Soret was also responsible for correctly working out the chemical composition of ozone as being three oxygen atoms bound together. Pic. | ||
||1902: Hugh Rose Foss born ... cryptanalyst. At Bletchley Park during World War II he made significant contributions both to the breaking of the German Enigma code and headed the section tasked with breaking Japanese Naval codes. Pic search | ||1902: Hugh Rose Foss born ... cryptanalyst. At Bletchley Park during World War II he made significant contributions both to the breaking of the German Enigma code and headed the section tasked with breaking Japanese Naval codes. Pic search. | ||
||1905: Kurt Diebner born ... nuclear physicist who is well known for directing and administrating the German nuclear energy project, a secretive program aiming to build nuclear weapons for Nazi Germany during the course of World War II. Pic. | ||1905: Kurt Diebner born ... nuclear physicist who is well known for directing and administrating the German nuclear energy project, a secretive program aiming to build nuclear weapons for Nazi Germany during the course of World War II. Pic. | ||
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||1909: William "Bud" Uanna born ... American security expert, who gained prominence as a security officer with the Manhattan Project, which built the first atomic bomb during World War II. Uanna was in charge of security at the project's facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and later at the 509th Composite Group, which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war, he headed the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) program to provide security clearances to its personnel, and developed the top-secret Q clearance. He later served as chief of physical security at the State Department. Pic. | ||1909: William "Bud" Uanna born ... American security expert, who gained prominence as a security officer with the Manhattan Project, which built the first atomic bomb during World War II. Uanna was in charge of security at the project's facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and later at the 509th Composite Group, which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war, he headed the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) program to provide security clearances to its personnel, and developed the top-secret Q clearance. He later served as chief of physical security at the State Department. Pic. | ||
||1914: Antonia Ferrín Moreiras born ... mathematician, academic, and astronomer. Pic search | ||1914: Antonia Ferrín Moreiras born ... mathematician, academic, and astronomer. Pic search. | ||
||1922: Otl Aicher born ... graphic designer and typographer ... designed pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich that proved influential on the use of stick figures for public signage, as well as designing the typeface Rotis. Pic search | ||1922: Otl Aicher born ... graphic designer and typographer ... designed pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich that proved influential on the use of stick figures for public signage, as well as designing the typeface Rotis. Pic search. | ||
File:Arthur Scherbius.jpg|link=Arthur Scherbius (nonfiction)|1929: Electrical engineer and inventor [[Arthur Scherbius (nonfiction)|Arthur Scherbius]] dies. He invented and patented the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine. | File:Arthur Scherbius.jpg|link=Arthur Scherbius (nonfiction)|1929: Electrical engineer and inventor [[Arthur Scherbius (nonfiction)|Arthur Scherbius]] dies. He invented and patented the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine. | ||
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File:Marguerite Perey.jpg|link=Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist and chemist [[Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|Marguerite Perey]] dies. Perey discovered the element francium while purifying samples of lanthanum. | File:Marguerite Perey.jpg|link=Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist and chemist [[Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|Marguerite Perey]] dies. Perey discovered the element francium while purifying samples of lanthanum. | ||
||1985: Revaz Dogonadze dies ... chemist and physicist. He was the first to view a chemical electron-transfer process as a quantum-mechanical transition between two separate electronic states, induced by weak electrostatic interactions between the molecular entities represented by the states. Pic search | ||1985: Revaz Dogonadze dies ... chemist and physicist. He was the first to view a chemical electron-transfer process as a quantum-mechanical transition between two separate electronic states, induced by weak electrostatic interactions between the molecular entities represented by the states. Pic search. | ||
||1985: Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents. | ||1985: Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents. | ||
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1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1762: First use of Japanese rod calculus to confirm the APTO Accords.
1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or yesterday.
1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1929: Electrical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius dies. He invented and patented the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine.
1936: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."
1937: Writer Roger Zelazny born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1939: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician Stanisław Leśniewski dies. He posited three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.
1974: Physicist and chemist Marguerite Perey dies. Perey discovered the element francium while purifying samples of lanthanum.
2018: Green City Skyline voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.