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||1493 – Paracelsus, Swiss-German physician, botanist, astrologer, and occultist (d. 1541)
||| HIGH INCIDENCE OF BIRTHS, FEW DEATHS


||1569 – Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and chemist (d. 1611)
||1493: Paracelsus born ... physician, botanist, astrologer, and occultist.
 
||1569: Martin Ruland the Younger born ... physician and chemist.


File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Leibniz (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician [[Gottfried Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Leibniz]] demonstrates integral [[Calculus (nonfiction)|calculus]] for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Leibniz (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician [[Gottfried Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Leibniz]] demonstrates integral [[Calculus (nonfiction)|calculus]] for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).


||1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
||1724: Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.


||1743 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist, entomologist, and psychologist (d. 1828)
||1743: Carl Peter Thunberg born ... botanist, entomologist, and psychologist.


||1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
||1831: In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.


File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1875: Astronomer [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] born.  He will perform the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1875: Astronomer [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] born.  He will perform the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
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||1966: NASA launches Gemini 12.
||1966: NASA launches Gemini 12.


||1967: Lester Randolph Ford Sr. dies ... mathematician.
||1967: Lester Randolph Ford Sr. dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1973: Artturi Ilmari Virtanen dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1973: Artturi Ilmari Virtanen dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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File:Venus Express in orbit.jpg|link=Venus Express (nonfiction)|2005: The [[Venus Express (nonfiction)|Venus Express]] successfully performs its first trajectory correction maneuver.
File:Venus Express in orbit.jpg|link=Venus Express (nonfiction)|2005: The [[Venus Express (nonfiction)|Venus Express]] successfully performs its first trajectory correction maneuver.


||2014: Philip G. Hodge dies ... engineer and academic.
File:Philip G. Hodge.jpg|link=Philip G. Hodge (nonfiction)|2014: Materials engineer and academic [[Philip G. Hodge (nonfiction)|Philip G. Hodge]] dies. He studied the mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials, contributing to plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, piecewise linear isotropic plasticity, and nonlinear programming applications.


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  • 1675: Mathematician Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).

    1675: Mathematician Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).

  • 1875: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher born. He will perform the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.

    1875: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher born. He will perform the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.

  • 1904: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead born. During the Second World War, he will work with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

    1904: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead born. During the Second World War, he will work with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

  • 1930: Physicist Hugh Everett III born. He will propose the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.

    1930: Physicist Hugh Everett III born. He will propose the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.

  • 1933: Cantor Parabola warns that crimes against mathematical constants are on the rise.

    1933: Cantor Parabola warns that crimes against mathematical constants are on the rise.

  • 2005: The Venus Express successfully performs its first trajectory correction maneuver.

    2005: The Venus Express successfully performs its first trajectory correction maneuver.

  • 2014: Materials engineer and academic Philip G. Hodge dies. He studied the mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials, contributing to plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, piecewise linear isotropic plasticity, and nonlinear programming applications.

    2014: Materials engineer and academic Philip G. Hodge dies. He studied the mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials, contributing to plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, piecewise linear isotropic plasticity, and nonlinear programming applications.

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