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| ||1425: Leonardo di Piero Dati (1360 – 16 March 1425) was an Italian friar and humanist. Both Leonardo and Gregorio Dati are attributed authorship of La Sfera ("The Sphere"), an astronomical-geographic poemetto in ottave, written in the second half of the 14th century, and a work much popular in its time. This work in verse gives information about the world, the marinaresche compass and other things, adding observations, notes about travel and designs. Dati's sermons on the feast of St. Francis (October 1416) and the feast of the Circumcision of Jesus (January 1417) advocated respect for papal power and reform within the context of the established order. Pic: book pages, or family crest.
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| File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1520: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] dies. Waldseemüller produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America". | | File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1520: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] dies. Waldseemüller produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America". |
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| ||1521: Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Homonhon in the Philippines.
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| ||1740: Johann Jacob Schweppe born ... watchmaker and amateur scientist who developed the first practical process to manufacture bottled carbonated mineral water, based on a process discovered by Joseph Priestley in 1767. Pic.
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| File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1750: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] born. Herschel will discover several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name. | | File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1750: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] born. Herschel will discover several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name. |
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| ||1774: Matthew Flinders born ... navigator and cartographer. Pic.
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| ||1789: Physicist and mathematician Georg Ohm born. Ohm found that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current. This relationship is known as Ohm's law. Pic.
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| ||1821: Heinrich Eduard Heine born ... mathematician. Heine became known for results on special functions and in real analysis. In particular, he authored an important treatise on spherical harmonics and Legendre functions (Handbuch der Kugelfunctionen). He also investigated basic hypergeometric series. He introduced the Mehler–Heine formula. Pic.
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| ||1836: Andrew Smith Hallidie born ... engineer and businessman. Pic.
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| File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1838: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] dies. Bowditch was a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book ''The New American Practical Navigator'', first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel. | | File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1838: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] dies. Bowditch was a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book ''The New American Practical Navigator'', first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel. |
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| ||1841: Félix Savart born ... physicist and psychologist. Pic (bust).
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| ||1846: Magnus Gustaf Mittag-Leffler born ... mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions, which today is called complex analysis. Pic.
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| ||1851: Martinus Beijerinck born ... microbiologist and botanist. Pic.
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| File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1859: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] born. Popov will make pioneering contributions to the study of high frequency electrical phenomenoa; in Russia and some eastern European, he will be acclaimed as the inventor of radio. | | File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1859: Physicist and academic [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] born. Popov will make pioneering contributions to the study of high frequency electrical phenomenoa; in Russia and some eastern European, he will be acclaimed as the inventor of radio. |
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| ||1912: Siegfried Flügge born ... theoretical physicist and made contributions to nuclear physics and the theoretical basis for nuclear weapons. He worked in the German Uranverein (nuclear weapons project). Pic.
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| ||1914: John Murray dies ... oceanographer and biologist ... the father of modern oceanography. Pic.
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| File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] born. Kodaira will make distinguished contributions algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning the Fields medal in 1954. | | File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] born. Kodaira will make distinguished contributions algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, winning the Fields medal in 1954. |
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| ||1916: Tsutomu Yamaguchi born ... survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 70 people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions. Pic.
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| ||1918: Frederick Reines born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1923: Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the incandescent light bulb. Pic.
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| ||1925: August von Wassermann dies ... bacteriologist and hygienist. Pic.
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| ||1925: Chemist Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas born. He will co-invent the progestin norethisterone, used in one of the first three oral contraceptives. Pic.
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| ||1926: History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. Pic.
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| ||1927: Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov born ... test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became the first cosmonaut to fly in space twice when he was selected as the solo pilot of Soyuz 1, the first manned test flight of a new spacecraft. A parachute failure caused his Soyuz capsule to crash into the ground after re-entry on 24 April 1967, making him the first human to die in a space flight. Pic.
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| ||1929: Tihomir Novakov born ... physicist and academic. Pic (cool).
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| ||1933: Alfréd Haar born ... mathematician. The Haar measure, Haar wavelet, and Haar transform are named in his honor. Pic.
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| ||1935: Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
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| ||1936: Raymond Vahan Damadian born ... inventor, invented the MRI. Pic search.
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| ||1940: Thomas Little Heath dies ... civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator, and mountaineer. He was educated at Clifton College. Heath translated works of Euclid of Alexandria, Apollonius of Perga, Aristarchus of Samos, and Archimedes of Syracuse into English. Pic: http://faculty.etsu.edu/gardnerr/geometry-history/heiberg-heath.htm
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| ||1966: Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena target vehicle.
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| ||1978J: Amoco Cadiz oil spill - supertanker owned by Amoco Transport Corp and transporting crude oil for Shell Oil. Operating under the Liberian flag of convenience, she ran aground on 16 March 1978 on Portsall Rocks, 2 km (1 mi) from the coast of Brittany, France. Ultimately she split in three and sank, resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date. Pic.
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| ||1988: Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Pics.
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| ||1992: Yves Rocard dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic search.
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| ||1994: C. S. Venkataraman dies ... Mathematician ... specialized in the theory of numbers and his forte was the Theory of Arithmetic Functions. Pic.
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| ||1998: Derek Barton dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search.
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| ||2001: Johannes Benzing dies ... Turkic specialist and Diplomat in the era of National Socialism and in the Federal Republic of Germany. Benzing worked as a Linguist in Pers Z S, the signals intelligence agency of the German Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt). He was the youngest senior official (German:Beamter) and headed the section from October 1939 until September 1944. Pic.
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| ||2003: Astronomer and academic Lawrence Hugh Aller dies. His work concentrated on the chemical composition of stars and nebulae. He was one of the first astronomers to argue that some differences in stellar and nebular spectra were caused by differences in their chemical composition. Pic search.
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| ||2012: M. A. R. Barker dies ... professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies who created one of the first roleplaying games, Empire of the Petal Throne, and wrote several fantasy/science fantasy novels based in his associated world setting of Tékumel. Pic search.
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| ||2013: Jamal Nazrul Islam dies ... physicist and cosmologist. Pic.
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