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||1492 | ||1492: The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France. | ||
File:Bernardino Telesio.jpg|link=Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|1509: Philosopher and scientist [[Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|Bernardino Telesio]] born. His emphasis on observation will influence the emergence of the scientific method. | File:Bernardino Telesio.jpg|link=Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|1509: Philosopher and scientist [[Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|Bernardino Telesio]] born. His emphasis on observation will influence the emergence of the scientific method. | ||
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File:Emil du Bois-Reymond.jpg|link=Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1818: Physician and physiologist [[Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Emil du Bois-Reymond]] born. He will discover nerve action potential, and develop experimental electrophysiology. | File:Emil du Bois-Reymond.jpg|link=Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1818: Physician and physiologist [[Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Emil du Bois-Reymond]] born. He will discover nerve action potential, and develop experimental electrophysiology. | ||
||1837 | ||1837: In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time. | ||
File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1867: Physicist and chemist [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] born. She will conduct pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium. | File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1867: Physicist and chemist [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] born. She will conduct pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium. | ||
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File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1872: Mathematician [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] dies. He made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. | File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1872: Mathematician [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] dies. He made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. | ||
||1878 | ||1878: Lise Meitner born ... physicist and academic. | ||
||1879 | ||1879: Leon Trotsky born ... theorist and politician, founded the Red Army. | ||
||1886 | ||1886: Aron Nimzowitsch born ... chess player and theoretician (d. 1935) | ||
||1888 | ||1888: C. V. Raman born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1891 | ||1891: Genrikh Yagoda born ... director of the NKVD. | ||
||1898 | ||1898: Raphaël Salem born ... mathematician and academic. | ||
||Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim | ||1899: Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim ... born ... theoretical physicist. | ||
||Jean Leray | ||1906: Jean Leray born ... mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Pic. | ||
||1910 | ||1910: The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. | ||
||Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel | ||1911: Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel born ... missile designer in the Soviet Union. | ||
||Philip Morrison | ||1915: Philip Morrison born ... professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics. Pic. | ||
||Félix Pisani | ||1920: Félix Pisani dies ... chemist and mineralogist. | ||
||1929 | ||1929: In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public. | ||
||Max Bergmann | ||1944: Max Bergmann born ... biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides. | ||
||1944 | ||1944: Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring. | ||
||Carl Wilhelm Oseen | ||1944: Carl Wilhelm Oseen dies ... theoretical physicist in Uppsala and Director of the Nobel Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm. He formulated the fundamentals of the elasticity theory of liquid crystals (Oseen elasticity theory), as well as the Oseen equations for viscous fluid flow at small Reynolds numbers. He gave his name to the Oseen tensor and, with Horace Lamb, to the Lamb–Oseen vortex. Pic. | ||
||1957 | ||1957: Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters. | ||
File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1958: Astronomer and crime-fighter [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] analyzes the radial velocities for galaxies, reveals previously unknown [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1958: Astronomer and crime-fighter [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] analyzes the radial velocities for galaxies, reveals previously unknown [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | ||
||1967: Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg dies ... physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges. Pic: https://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/wolfgang-finkelnburg-/DE-2086/lido/57c6ad4ac556e0.88918046 | |||
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1972: [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon]] is reelected President of the United States. | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1972: [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon]] is reelected President of the United States. | ||
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File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1973: The United States Congress overrides President [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard M. Nixon]]'s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval. | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1973: The United States Congress overrides President [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard M. Nixon]]'s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval. | ||
||1983 | ||1983: United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused. | ||
||Alexander Osipovich Gelfond | ||1968: Alexander Osipovich Gelfond ... mathematician. | ||
File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|1996: NASA launches the [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]]. | File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|1996: NASA launches the [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]]. | ||
||2000 | ||2000: Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States. | ||
||2000 | ||2000: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas. | ||
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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.
1807: Engineer, hydrographer, and cryptid researcher Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait develops new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and repel and repel the aquatic cryptid Neptune Slaughter.
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.