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||1958: Charles John Read born ... mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. In operator theory, he is best known for his work in the 1980s on the invariant subspace problem, where he constructed operators with only trivial invariant subspaces on particular Banach spaces Pic. | ||1958: Charles John Read born ... mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. In operator theory, he is best known for his work in the 1980s on the invariant subspace problem, where he constructed operators with only trivial invariant subspaces on particular Banach spaces Pic. | ||
File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. | File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. | ||
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1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1698: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer born. He will be known as "the father of naval architecture".
1754: Physician and astrologer Richard Mead dies. His work, A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it (1720), was of historic importance in the understanding of transmissible diseases.
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1922: Mathematician Hing Tong born. He will provide the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
1927: Botanist and chemist Friedrich Reinitzer dies. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, Reinitzer discovered the properties of what would later be called liquid crystals; although the discovery attracted attention, interest soon faded as no practical uses were found at the time.
1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1997: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu dies. She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.
1998: Historian and cryptanalyst Francis Harry Hinsley dies. Hinsley worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the war.