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||762 – Baghdad is founded. | ||762 – Baghdad is founded. | ||
||1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect (d. 1574) | ||1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect (d. 1574). Pic. | ||
||1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673) | ||1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673). Pic. | ||
||1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. | ||1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Bacon_(Virginia_colonist_and_rebel) | ||
File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] dies. | File:Jean-Antoine Chaptal.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist [[Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal]] dies. | ||
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File:Petersburg crater aftermath 1865.jpg|link=Battle of the Crater (nonfiction)|1864: American Civil War: [[Battle of the Crater (nonfiction)|Battle of the Crater]]: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches. | File:Petersburg crater aftermath 1865.jpg|link=Battle of the Crater (nonfiction)|1864: American Civil War: [[Battle of the Crater (nonfiction)|Battle of the Crater]]: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches. | ||
||1913 – Lou Darvas, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 1987) | ||1913 – Lou Darvas, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 1987). Pic not Wiki but: http://sports.mearsonlineauctions.com/lot-39383.aspx | ||
||1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's ''Flowers and Trees'', the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short. | ||1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's ''Flowers and Trees'', the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short. | ||
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||1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors. | ||1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors. | ||
||1948 – John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic (d. 2014) Stockholm Water Prize | ||1948 – John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic (d. 2014) Stockholm Water Prize. Pic not Wiki but: https://johnbriscoe.seas.harvard.edu/ | ||
||1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover. | ||1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover. | ||
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||1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again. | ||1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again. | ||
|| | ||1978: Robert Edward "Rufus" Bowen dies. He specialized in dynamical systems theory. Bowen's work dealt primarily with axiom A systems, but the methods he used while exploring topological entropy, symbolic dynamics, ergodic theory, Markov partitions, and invariant measures "have application far beyond the axiom A systems for which they were invented." Pic. | ||
|| | ||1985 – Julia Robinson, American mathematician and theorist (b. 1919). Pic. | ||
||2001 – Anton Schwarzkopf, German engineer (b. 1924) Amusement rides | ||1992 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914). Pic. | ||
||2001 – Anton Schwarzkopf, German engineer (b. 1924) Amusement rides. Pic not Wikipedia. | |||
||2002: Body discovered: Joseph Newton Chandler III is the alias of an unidentified man who committed suicide in Eastlake, Ohio in July 2002. After his death, investigators were unable to locate his family and discovered that he had stolen the identity of an eight-year-old boy who was killed in a car crash in Texas in 1945. | ||2002: Body discovered: Joseph Newton Chandler III is the alias of an unidentified man who committed suicide in Eastlake, Ohio in July 2002. After his death, investigators were unable to locate his family and discovered that he had stolen the identity of an eight-year-old boy who was killed in a car crash in Texas in 1945. | ||
||Abram Fet (d. 30 July 2007) – a Russian mathematician, philosopher, translator. | ||Abram Fet (d. 30 July 2007) – a Russian mathematician, philosopher, translator. No pic. | ||
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1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal dies.
1841: Mathematician and astronomer George Biddell Airy measures mean density of the Earth using Gnomon algorithm technique. This data will later be adapted for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1864: American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1972: "Hello World" computer program from 1974 proud to represent "Hello World" computer programs everywhere.
1974: Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.