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File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1884: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] born. He will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation. | File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1884: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] born. He will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation. | ||
||Rudolf Nebel (b. 21 March 1894) was a spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the ''Verein für Raumschiffahrt'' (VfR – "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II. | |||
||1911 – Walter Lincoln Hawkins, African-American scientist and inventor (d. 1992) | ||1911 – Walter Lincoln Hawkins, African-American scientist and inventor (d. 1992) | ||
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1626: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat develops original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, uses it to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1768: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier born. He will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
1882: Mark Twain admits to experiencing great fear during his famous interview with Wallace War-Heels.
1883: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1884: Mathematician George David Birkhoff born. He will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.
1963: Film rights to Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press sell for nearly a million dollars.
1965: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
