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||1902 – Meyer Lansky, American gangster (d. 1983) | ||1902 – Meyer Lansky, American gangster (d. 1983) | ||
||Miron Nicolescu (b. August 27, 1903) was a Romanian mathematician. | |||
||1910 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (b. 1835) | ||1910 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (b. 1835) | ||
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1858: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and set theory.
1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist dies. She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
2003: Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Reality Television Show.
