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||1493: Hartmann Schedel's ''Nuremberg Chronicle'', one of the best-documented early printed books, is published. Pic: woodcut. | |||
||1664: Stefano della Bella dies ... engraver and etcher. Pic. | |||
||1682: Jean Picard dies ... priest and astronomer. Pic: sundial. | |||
File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1854: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. | |||
||1807: Thomas Hawksley born ... engineer and academic ... early water supply and coal gas engineering projects. Pic. | |||
||1813: Claude Bernard born ... physiologist and academic. Bernard was among the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations. He originated the term ''milieu intérieur'', and the associated concept of homeostasis. Pic. | |||
||1863: Albert Calmette born ... physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist. Calmette discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of ''Mycobacterium bovis'' used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis. He also developed the first antivenom for snake venom, the Calmette's serum. Pic. | |||
||1863: Paul Drude born ... physicist and academic. In 1894 he was responsible for introducing the symbol "c" for the speed of light in a perfect vacuum. Pic. | |||
||1868: Physicist Henri Abraham born. Abraham made important contributions to the science of radio waves. He performed some of the first measurements of the propagation velocity of radio waves, helped develop France's first triode vacuum tube, and with Eugene Bloch invented the astable multivibrator. Pic. | |||
||1877: Georg Adolf Erman dies ... physicist. Pic. | |||
||1879: Margherita Piazzola Beloch born ... mathematician ... worked in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry. Pic search. | |||
||1882: Traian Lalescu born ... mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. Pic. | |||
File:Buckminster Fuller as a young man.jpg|link=Buckminster Fuller (nonfiction)|1895: Polymath [[Buckminster Fuller (nonfiction)|Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller]] born. Fuller was, among other things, an architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. | |||
||1896: Giulio Ascoli dies ... mathematician. Pic search. | |||
||1903: Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood born ... member of the Manhattan Project and a business owner who designed, developed and manufactured her own line of ionizing radiation detectors. She was a lifelong feminist and a founding member of Chicago NOW. Pic search maybe. | |||
||1906: George Elbert Kimball born ... professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II. Pic search. | |||
||1909: Fritz Leonhardt born ... engineer ... made major contributions to 20th-century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges. His book ''Bridges: Aesthetics and Design'' is well known throughout the bridge engineering community. Pic search. | |||
||1912: Harold R. McCluskey born ... a chemical operations technician at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant located in Washington State who is known for having survived, on August 30, 1976, exposure to the highest dose of radiation from americium ever recorded. He became known as the 'Atomic Man'. Pic: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/four-decades-later-workers-enter-site-of-atomic-man-accident/ | |||
||1913: Willis Lamb born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum." Pic. | |||
File:Bisbee Deportation.jpg|link=Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|1917: The [[Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|Bisbee Deportation]]: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona. | |||
||1926: Gertrude Bell dies ... archaeologist and spy. Pic. | |||
||1934: Ole Evinrude dies ... inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor. Pic search. | |||
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|1935: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair. | |||
||1941: Stanisław Ruziewicz dies ... mathematician and one of the founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics. The Ruziewicz problem, asking whether the Lebesgue measure on the sphere may be characterized by certain of its properties, is named after Ruziewicz. Pic. | |||
||1945: Boris Galerkin dies ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to the finite element method, which is a way to numerically solve partial differential equations. The Galerkin method approximates the solution to a problem in weak form. Pic. | |||
||1959: Sodium Reactor Experiment: Beginning of Run 14, which will almost immediately encounter an escalating series of problem which will lead to a reactor shutdown due to fuel rod melting. | |||
||1962: The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at London's Marquee Club. | |||
||1979: The Corona de Aragón Fire was a fire that killed at least 80 people in the five star Corona de Aragón Hotel in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain on 12 July 1979. At the time of the event the Hotel lodged high-profile General Franco family members Carmen Polo, Carmen Franco y Polo and Cristóbal Martínez Bordiú, as well as many high-ranking military personnel, five of whom died in the fire. Probable arson. | |||
||1983: Ernst Gabor Straus dies ... mathematician who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions. Pic search. | |||
||1985: Herbert John Ryser dies ... professor of mathematics, widely regarded as one of the major figures in combinatorics in the 20th century. He is the namesake of the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem and Ryser's formula for the computation of the permanent of a matrix. Pic. | |||
||1988: Boyd Crumrine Patterson dies ... was a mathematician and the 9th president of Washington & Jefferson College. During his presidency, the college's endowment expanded from $2.3 million to nearly $11 million. Pic. | |||
||1998: Arkady Ostashev dies ... scientist and engineer. Pic. | |||
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1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1895: Polymath Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller born. Fuller was, among other things, an architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.