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||1807: Auguste Laurent born ... chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry based on structural grouping of atoms within molecules to determine how the molecules combine in organic reactions. Pic. | ||1807: Auguste Laurent born ... chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry based on structural grouping of atoms within molecules to determine how the molecules combine in organic reactions. Pic. | ||
||1817: Policarpa Salavarrieta | ||1817: Policarpa Salavarrieta executed ... seamstress and spy. Pic. | ||
||1829: Louis Nicolas Vauquelin dies ... pharmacist and chemist. Pic. | ||1829: Louis Nicolas Vauquelin dies ... pharmacist and chemist. Pic. | ||
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||1909: Joshua Slocum born ... the first man to sail single-handedly around the world... disappeared while aboard his boat, the ''Spray''. Pic. | ||1909: Joshua Slocum born ... the first man to sail single-handedly around the world... disappeared while aboard his boat, the ''Spray''. Pic. | ||
||1910: Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher. | ||1910: Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher. Pic. | ||
||1915: Heinrich Gross born ... psychiatrist, medical doctor and neurologist, a reputed expert as a leading court-appointed psychiatrist, ill-famed for his proven involvement in the killing of at least nine children with physical, mental and/or emotional/behavioral characteristics considered "unclean" by the Nazi regime, under its Euthanasia Program. His role in hundreds of other cases of infanticide is unclear. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Heinrich+Gross+nazi&oq=Heinrich+Gross+nazi | ||1915: Heinrich Gross born ... psychiatrist, medical doctor and neurologist, a reputed expert as a leading court-appointed psychiatrist, ill-famed for his proven involvement in the killing of at least nine children with physical, mental and/or emotional/behavioral characteristics considered "unclean" by the Nazi regime, under its Euthanasia Program. His role in hundreds of other cases of infanticide is unclear. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Heinrich+Gross+nazi&oq=Heinrich+Gross+nazi | ||
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||1932: Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu born ... mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics. Pic. | ||1932: Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu born ... mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics. Pic. | ||
||1945: Eldridge Reeves Johnson dies ... businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. | ||1945: Eldridge Reeves Johnson dies ... businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. Pic. | ||
||1967: American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser. Pic. | ||1967: American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser. Pic. | ||
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1716: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.
1971: Mathematician and academic Hanna Neumann dies. She contributed to group theory, co-authoring the important paper Wreath products and varieties of groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter), and authoring the influential book Varieties of Groups.
1971: Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Two Creatures 2 unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of Mariner 9 entering orbit around Mars.