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||1916: Abraham Seidenberg born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1916: Abraham Seidenberg born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1922: Clair Cameron Patterson born ... geochemist. Pic. | ||1922: Clair Cameron Patterson born ... geochemist. Pic. | ||
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File:Lloyd Shapley (1980).jpg|link=Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and economist [[Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|Lloyd Shapley]] born. He will define game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation." | File:Lloyd Shapley (1980).jpg|link=Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and economist [[Lloyd Shapley (nonfiction)|Lloyd Shapley]] born. He will define game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation." | ||
||1924: Hans-Egon Richert born ... mathematician who worked primarily in analytic number theory. Pic search | ||1924: Hans-Egon Richert born ... mathematician who worked primarily in analytic number theory. Pic search. | ||
||1927: Henry Berge Helson born ... mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis. Pic. | ||1927: Henry Berge Helson born ... mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis. Pic. | ||
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||1955: Baikonur cosmodrome founded. Pic. | ||1955: Baikonur cosmodrome founded. Pic. | ||
||1966: Nikolai Vasilyevich Smirnov dies ... mathematician who contributed to probability theory and statistics. Smirnov is known, with Sergey Korolev, for the Korolev-Smirnov test. Pic search | ||1966: Nikolai Vasilyevich Smirnov dies ... mathematician who contributed to probability theory and statistics. Smirnov is known, with Sergey Korolev, for the Korolev-Smirnov test. Pic search. | ||
||1966: Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world. | ||1966: Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world. | ||
||1967: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is released in the United States. | ||1967: ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' by The Beatles is released in the United States. | ||
||1979: Philip Van Horn Weems dies ... United States Navy officer, inventor of navigational instruments and methods, including the Weems Plotter and the Second Setting Watch, and author of navigational textbooks. Star Altitude Curves. Pic: https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/multimedia-asset/philip-van-horn-weems-0 | ||1979: Philip Van Horn Weems dies ... United States Navy officer, inventor of navigational instruments and methods, including the Weems Plotter and the Second Setting Watch, and author of navigational textbooks. Star Altitude Curves. Pic: https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/multimedia-asset/philip-van-horn-weems-0 | ||
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||2003: Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. | ||2003: Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. | ||
||2005: Melita Norwood dies ... English civil servant and spy. Pic search | ||2005: Melita Norwood dies ... English civil servant and spy. Pic search. | ||
||2009: Kai Lai Chung dies ... mathematician known for his significant contributions to modern probability theory. Pic. | ||2009: Kai Lai Chung dies ... mathematician known for his significant contributions to modern probability theory. Pic. | ||
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||2015: Irwin Rose dies ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||2015: Irwin Rose dies ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2016: Theoretical physicist Thomas Kibble dies ... research interests were in quantum field theory, especially the interface between high-energy particle physics and cosmology. He is best known as one of the first to describe the Higgs mechanism, and for his research on topological defects. From the 1950s he was concerned about the nuclear arms race and from 1970 took leading roles in promoting the social responsibility of the scientist. Pic. | |||
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1743: Occultist and explorer Alessandro Cagliostro born. He will become a glamorous figure associated with the royal courts of Europe where he will pursue psychic healing, alchemy, and scrying.
1881: Engineer and radio pioneer Henry Joseph Round born. Round will be an assistant of Guglielmo Marconi, and make contributions of his own to radio technology, for example the first reported observation of electroluminescence from a solid state diode.
1896: Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
1923: Mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapley born. He will define game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."
2014: Pharmacologist and chemist Alexander Shulgin dies. He discovered, synthesized, and personal bioassayed over 230 psychoactive compounds for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential.