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||154: Bardaisan born ... astrologer, scholar, and philosopher. No DOD. No pics online. | ||154: Bardaisan born ... astrologer, scholar, and philosopher. No DOD. No pics online. | ||
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||1934: Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off. Pic (cool!). | ||1934: Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off. Pic (cool!). | ||
||1957: Joseph Larmor born ... physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. Pic: http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/825 | ||1957: Joseph Larmor born ... physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. Pic: http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/825 | ||
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||1962: Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth. | ||1962: Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth. | ||
||1966: Delmore Schwartz dies ... poet and short story writer. Pic. | ||1966: Delmore Schwartz dies ... poet and short story writer. Pic. | ||
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||2015: Satoru Iwata dies ... game programmer and businessman. Pic. | ||2015: Satoru Iwata dies ... game programmer and businessman. Pic. | ||
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1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.
1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1812: Physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).
1931: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge born. He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.
1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.