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||1519 | ||1519: Johannes Crato von Krafftheim born ... humanist and physician (d. 1585). Pic. | ||
||1718 | ||1718: Blackbeard dies ... English pirate.. Pic. | ||
||1721 | ||1721: Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres born ... cartographer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. Pic. | ||
||Giusto Bellavitis | ||1803: Giusto Bellavitis born ... mathematician, senator, and municipal councilor. His principle achievement is the invention of the method of equipollences, a new method of analytic geometry that is both philosophical and fruitful. Pic. | ||
||1813 | ||1813: Johann Christian Reil dies ... physician, physiologist, and anatomist. Pic. | ||
||1830: Karl Christian Bruhns ... German astronomer. Pic. | ||1830: Karl Christian Bruhns born ... German astronomer. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1879: John Allan dies born ... scientist with interests in magnetism, particularly of the earth, and meteorology. Broun studied in Edinburgh University and worked at the observatory in Makerstoun from 1842 to 1849 before moving to India to work in the Kingdom of Travancore. He continued his studies on geo-magnetism in India and was involved in setting up observatories there apart from managing the Napier Museum in Trivandrum. One of the fundamental discoveries he made was that the Earth loses or gains magnetic intensity not locally, but as a whole. He also found that solar activity causes magnetic disturbances. Pic: https://maddy06.blogspot.com/2016/04/reaching-out-for-stars.html | ||
|| | ||1896: George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. dies ... engineer, invented the Ferris wheel. Pic. | ||
||1904 | ||1897: Paul Oswald Ahnert born ... astronomer and educator. No pic. | ||
||1904: Louis Néel born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1907: Asaph Hall III born ... an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double stars, the rotation of Saturn, and the mass of Mars. | ||1907: Asaph Hall III born ... an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double stars, the rotation of Saturn, and the mass of Mars. | ||
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1916: Author Jack London dies. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1946: ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") successfully refactors the Wow! signal.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series provides formula for clandestiphrine, authorities expect rise in crimes against mathematical constants.
1963: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1963: United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.
1965: Umbrella Man witnesses rubbed with Clandestiphrine, 73% die of stack overflow allergy. Witness Protection Program implements software patch to prevent recurrence.
1967: Clandestiphrine trafficking money laundered via The Little Petroleum Sample That Could, say transdimensional drug authorities.
1998: Physicist Harry Lehmann dies. He contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
