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| ||1484: George Spalatin was the pseudonym taken by Georg Burkhardt born ... humanist, theologian, reformer, secretary of the Saxon Elector Frederick the Wise, as well as an important figure in the history of the Reformation. Pic.
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| File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake. | | File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake. |
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| ||1680: Jan Swammerdam dies ... biologist and microscopist. His work on insects demonstrated that the various phases during the life of an insect—egg, larva, pupa, and adult—are different forms of the same animal. Pic.
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| ||1723: Tobias Mayer born ... astronomer and academic ... reflecting circle. Pic.
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| ||1740: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure born ... physicist and meteorologist ... often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven. Pic.
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| ||1781: René Laennec born ... physician, invented the stethoscope. Pic.
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| ||1804: Uriah Atherton Boyden born ... civil and mechanical engineer and inventor from Foxborough, Massachusetts best known for the development of the Boyden Turbine around 1844, while working for the Appleton Company in Lowell, Massachusetts. Boyden improved upon the water turbine developed by French engineer Fourneyron by adding a conical approach passage for the incoming water—submerged diffusers, guide vanes and a diverting exit passage. Pic.
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| File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' engages and sinks the Union warship USS ''Housatonic''. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship. | | File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' engages and sinks the Union warship USS ''Housatonic''. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship. |
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| ||1874: Adolphe Quetelet dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist. Pic.
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| ||1875: Astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander dies ... Argelander is known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances. Pic.
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| ||1888: Otto Stern born ... scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1943 for his development of the molecular beam as a tool for studying the characteristics of molecules and for his measurement of the magnetic moment of the proton. Pic.
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| ||1890: Ronald Fisher born ... statistician, biologist, and geneticist ... "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science" and "the single most important figure in 20th century statistics". In genetics, his work used mathematics to combine Mendelian genetics and natural selection; this contributed to the revival of Darwinism in the early 20th-century revision of the theory of evolution known as the modern synthesis. For his contributions to biology, Fisher has been called "the greatest of Darwin’s successors". Pic.
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| ||1890: Christopher Latham Sholes dies ... inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, and along with Frank Haven Hall, Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended as one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States.
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| File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]]. | | File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]]. |
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| ||1898: Gregor Wentzel born ... physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926. In his early years, he contributed to X-ray spectroscopy, but then broadened out to make contributions to quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and meson theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=gregor+wentzel
| | File:No Escape From Telephones.jpg|link=No Escape From Telephones|1953: Premiere of '''''[[No Escape From Telephones]]''''', an American science fiction thriller film about a police officer (Dick Tracy) who must bring a deranged computer (HAL 9000) to justice. |
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| ||1905: Rózsa Péter born ... mathematician and logician. She is best known as the "founding mother of recursion theory". Pic.
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| ||1906: Henrik Selberg born ... mathematician. He was born in Bergen as the son of Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg and Anna Kristina Brigtsdatter Skeie. He was a brother of Sigmund, Arne and Atle Selberg. He was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1962 to 1973. He is best known for his works on complex functions and potential theory. Pic search no: https://www.google.com/search?q=Henrik+Selberg+mathematician
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| ||1907: Alfred Brousseau born ... educator, photographer and mathematician and was known mostly as a founder of the Fibonacci Association and as an educator. Pic: http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/brousseau.html
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| ||1917: Albert L. Lehninger born ... biochemist and academic. Pic search.
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| ||1918: Jacqueline Ferrand born ... mathematician and academic. Ferrand worked on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=jacqueline+ferrand
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| ||1918: Alfred Horn born ... mathematician notable for his work in lattice theory and universal algebra. His 1951 paper "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras" described Horn clauses and Horn sentences, which later would form the foundation of logic programming. Pic.
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| ||1921: Duane Gish born ... biochemist and academic, creationist. Pic.
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| ||1924: Gevork Vartanian dies... Russian intelligence agent. He was primarily responsible for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. Pic.
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| ||1927: John Selfridge born ... mathematician who contributed to the fields of analytic number theory, computational number theory, and combinatorics. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Lewis+Selfridge
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| ||1928: Wolfhart Zimmermann born ... theoretical physicist. Pic: http://wwwth.mpp.mpg.de/conf/zimmermann-memorial/
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| ||1930: Benjamin Fain born ... physicist and academic. Pic.
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| ||1930: Sergio Campanato born ... mathematician who studied the theory of regularity for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sergio+Campanato
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| ||1933: Larry Jennings born ... magician and author. Pic.
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| ||1934: Siegbert Tarrasch dies ... chess player and theoretician. Pic.
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| ||1942: Huey P. Newton born ... activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party. Pic.
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| ||1947: Mathematician and academic Ettore Bortolotti dies. He worked in differential geometry; he also published comments in support [?] of Einstein's theory of relativity. Pic.
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| ||1950: Mathematician and academic Viktor Aleksandrovich Gorbunov born. He will work in algebraic systems, publishing applications of quasivarieties to graphs, convex geometries, and formal languages. No wiki, see: https://www.google.com/search?q=viktor+Aleksandrovich+Gorbunov Pic.
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| ||1959: Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
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| ||1964: Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze dies ... mathematician, famous for the Tietze extension theorem on functions from topological spaces to the real numbers. He also developed the Tietze transformations for group presentations, and was the first to pose the group isomorphism problem. Pic.
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| ||1965: Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
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| ||1969: Berry Louis Cannon dies ... aquanaut who served on the SEALAB II and III projects of the U.S. Navy. Cannon died of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair SEALAB III. It was later found that his diving rig's baralyme canister, which should have absorbed the carbon dioxide Cannon exhaled, was empty. Pic.
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| ||1979: Michel Loève dies ... probabilist and mathematical statistician. He is known in mathematical statistics and probability theory for the Karhunen–Loève theorem and Karhunen–Loève transform. Pic.
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| ||1980: The Derrynaflan Chalice is an 8th- or 9th-century chalice, that was found as part of the Derrynaflan Hoard of five liturgical vessels. The discovery was made near Killenaule, County Tipperary in Ireland.
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| ||1996: NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
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| ||1998: Ernst Jünger dies ... philosopher and author ... highly-decorated German soldier, author, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel. Pic.
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| ||1999: William David McElroy dies ... biochemist and academic administrator. He initiated an independent research program in bioluminescence, recruiting students to collect fireflies to perform experiments. He discovered the key role that luciferase and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) play in the process. Pic.
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| File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2009: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe makes its closest approach to Mars during a successful gravity assist toward Vesta. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt. | | File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2009: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe makes its closest approach to Mars during a successful gravity assist toward Vesta. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt. |
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| ||2017: Father Magnus J. Wenninger dies ... mathematician who worked on constructing polyhedron models, and wrote the first book on their construction. Pic.
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