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||1942: World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
||1942: World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.


||1958: Charles Hatfield dies ... meteorologist.
||1958: Charles Hatfield dies ... meteorologist, rainmaker. Pic search (cool) yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+hatfield&oq=Charles+Hatfield


||1984: Earl Muetterties born ... inorganic chemist born in Illinois, who is known for his experimental work with boranes, homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, fluxional processes in organometallic complexes and apicophilicity. Pic.
||1984: Earl Muetterties born ... inorganic chemist born in Illinois, who is known for his experimental work with boranes, homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, fluxional processes in organometallic complexes and apicophilicity. Pic.


||1994: Gustav Naan dies ... physicist and philosopher.
||1994: Gustav Naan dies ... physicist and philosopher. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=gustav+naan


||1996: Joachim Nitsche dies ... mathematician and academic. Image search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joachim+Nitsche
||1996: Joachim Nitsche dies ... mathematician and academic. Image search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joachim+Nitsche

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  • 1665: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat dies. He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown.

    1665: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat dies. He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown.

  • 1665: The San Pietro scrying engine spontaneously generates an elegy for Pierre de Fermat.

    1665: The San Pietro scrying engine spontaneously generates an elegy for Pierre de Fermat.

  • 1875: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to perform scrying engine functions.

    1875: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to perform scrying engine functions.

  • 1876: Author Jack London born. He will become one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.

    1876: Author Jack London born. He will become one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.

  • 1909: Mathematician and academic Hermann Minkowski dies. He showed that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".

    1909: Mathematician and academic Hermann Minkowski dies. He showed that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".

  • 2005: Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It will be the first spacecraft to eject material from a comet's surface.

    2005: Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It will be the first spacecraft to eject material from a comet's surface.

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