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||1996 – Jack Hamm, American cartoonist and television host (b. 1916) | ||1996 – Jack Hamm, American cartoonist and television host (b. 1916) | ||
||Herman Feshbach (d. 22 December, 2000) was an American physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics. | |||
||2014 – John Robert Beyster, American physicist and academic (b. 1924) | ||2014 – John Robert Beyster, American physicist and academic (b. 1924) | ||
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1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."
1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.
1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.