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||1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
||1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
||Marshall Hall, Jr. (b. 17 September 1910) was an American mathematician who made significant contributions to group theory and combinatorics.


||David Gilbarg (b. 17 September 1918) was an American mathematician, and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. Gilbarg was co-author, together with his student Neil Trudinger, of the book Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order.  
||David Gilbarg (b. 17 September 1918) was an American mathematician, and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. Gilbarg was co-author, together with his student Neil Trudinger, of the book Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order.  

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  • 1826: Mathematician and academic Bernhard Riemann born. He will make contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.

    1826: Mathematician and academic Bernhard Riemann born. He will make contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.

  • 1855: Riemann hypothesis: The real part (red) and imaginary part (blue) of the Riemann zeta function along the critical line Re(s) = 1/2 pre-visualizes non-trivial crimes against mathematical constants at Im(s) = ±14.135, ±21.022 and ±25.011.

    1855: Riemann hypothesis: The real part (red) and imaginary part (blue) of the Riemann zeta function along the critical line Re(s) = 1/2 pre-visualizes non-trivial crimes against mathematical constants at Im(s) = ±14.135, ±21.022 and ±25.011.

  • 1857: Scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky born. He will be one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics.

    1857: Scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky born. He will be one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics.

  • 1994: Philosopher and academic Karl Popper dies. He is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.

    1994: Philosopher and academic Karl Popper dies. He is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars credits scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky with "inspiring generations of astronauts."

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars credits scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky with "inspiring generations of astronauts."

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