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||1799: Karl Heinrich Gräffe born ... mathematician. He is known for having been the first to enunciate a method to approximate the roots of any polynomial, a method known today as the Dandelin-Gräffe method. No pics online. | ||1799: Karl Heinrich Gräffe born ... mathematician. He is known for having been the first to enunciate a method to approximate the roots of any polynomial, a method known today as the Dandelin-Gräffe method. No pics online. | ||
File:Emil du Bois-Reymond.jpg|link=Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1818: Physician and physiologist [[Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Emil du Bois-Reymond]] born. He will discover nerve action potential, and develop experimental electrophysiology. | File:Emil du Bois-Reymond.jpg|link=Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1818: Physician and physiologist [[Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Emil du Bois-Reymond]] born. He will discover nerve action potential, and develop experimental electrophysiology. | ||
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File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1867: Physicist and chemist [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] born. She will conduct pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium. | File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1867: Physicist and chemist [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] born. She will conduct pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium. | ||
File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The American ship ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]'' sets sail from New Your. | File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The American ship ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]'' sets sail from New Your. The ship will later be found nine days later, mysteriously abandoned and only slightly damaged. | ||
File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1872: Mathematician [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] dies. He made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. | File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1872: Mathematician [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] dies. He made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. | ||
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||1879: Leon Trotsky born ... theorist and politician, founded the Red Army. | ||1879: Leon Trotsky born ... theorist and politician, founded the Red Army. | ||
||1886: Aron Nimzowitsch born ... chess player and theoretician | ||1886: Aron Nimzowitsch born ... chess player and theoretician. | ||
||1888: C. V. Raman born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1888: C. V. Raman born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1891: Genrikh Yagoda born ... director of the NKVD. | ||1891: Genrikh Yagoda born ... director of the NKVD. | ||
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||1929: In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public. | ||1929: In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public. | ||
||1944: Max Bergmann | ||1944: Max Bergmann dies ... biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=max+bergmann+biochemist | ||
||1944: Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring. Pic. | ||1944: Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring. Pic. | ||
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||1957: Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters. | ||1957: Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters. | ||
||1967: Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg dies ... physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges. Pic: https://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/wolfgang-finkelnburg-/DE-2086/lido/57c6ad4ac556e0.88918046 | ||1967: Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg dies ... physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges. Pic: https://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/wolfgang-finkelnburg-/DE-2086/lido/57c6ad4ac556e0.88918046 | ||
||1968: Alexander Gelfond dies ... mathematician and cryptographer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+gelfond | ||1968: Alexander Gelfond dies ... mathematician and cryptographer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+gelfond | ||
||File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1972: [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon]] is reelected President of the United States. | ||File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1972: [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon]] is reelected President of the United States. | ||
||File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1973: The United States Congress overrides President [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard M. Nixon]]'s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval. | ||File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1973: The United States Congress overrides President [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard M. Nixon]]'s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval. | ||
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||1988: Bill Hoest dies ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||1988: Bill Hoest dies ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||
File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|1996: NASA launches the [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]]. | File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|1996: NASA launches the [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]]. Mars Global Surveyor will examine the entire planet, from the ionosphere down through the atmosphere to the surface. It will also provide support for sister orbiters and Mars landers and rovers. | ||
||1998: Margaret Mary Gowing née Elliott dies ... was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored History of the Second World War, but was better known for her books, commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covering the early history of Britain's nuclear weapons programs. Pic. | ||1998: Margaret Mary Gowing née Elliott dies ... was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored History of the Second World War, but was better known for her books, commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covering the early history of Britain's nuclear weapons programs. Pic. | ||
||2000: Engineer Hans-Georg Münzberg dies ... specialized in airplane turbines and space flight. He taught at the TU Berlin, the TH Munich, and wrote textbooks. Pic search | ||2000: Engineer Hans-Georg Münzberg dies ... specialized in airplane turbines and space flight. He taught at the TU Berlin, the TH Munich, and wrote textbooks. Pic search. | ||
||2000: Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States. | ||2000: Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States. | ||
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File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates the twenty-first anniversary of the launch of [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]]. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates the twenty-first anniversary of the launch of [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]]. | ||
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1509: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio born. His emphasis on observation will influence the emergence of the scientific method.
1633: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel dies.
1657: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Mario Bettinus dies. He wrote Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae, an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities.
1818: Physician and physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond born. He will discover nerve action potential, and develop experimental electrophysiology.
1867: Physicist and chemist Marie Curie born. She will conduct pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
1872: The American ship Mary Celeste sets sail from New Your. The ship will later be found nine days later, mysteriously abandoned and only slightly damaged.
1872: Mathematician Alfred Clebsch dies. He made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
1996: NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor. Mars Global Surveyor will examine the entire planet, from the ionosphere down through the atmosphere to the surface. It will also provide support for sister orbiters and Mars landers and rovers.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates the twenty-first anniversary of the launch of Mars Global Surveyor.