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||1898 – Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (d. 1963) | ||1898 – Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (d. 1963) | ||
||Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (November 7, 1899 | ||Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (b. November 7, 1899) was a German born Jewish American theoretical physicist. | ||
||Jean Leray (b. 7 November 1906) was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Pic. | |||
||1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. | ||1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. |
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1509: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio born. His emphasis on observation will influence the emergence of the scientific method.
1633: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel dies.
1657: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Mario Bettinus dies. He wrote Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae, an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities.
1818: Physician and physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond born. He will discover nerve action potential, and develop experimental electrophysiology.
1867: Physicist and chemist Marie Curie born. She will conduct pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
1872: The American ship Mary Celeste sets sail from New Your. The ship will later be found abandoned for nine days but only slightly damaged.
1872: Mathematician Alfred Clebsch dies. He made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
1958: Astronomer and crime-fighter Vesto Melvin Slipher analyzes the radial velocities for galaxies, reveals previously unknown crimes against astronomical constants.
1972: Richard Nixon is reelected President of the United States.
1973: The United States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1996: NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.