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||Kurt August Hirsch (b. January 12, 1906) was a German mathematician | ||Kurt August Hirsch (b. January 12, 1906) was a German mathematician | ||
||Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (b. 12 January 1907) worked as the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He is regarded by many as the father of practical astronautics. Pic. | |||
||1908 – Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988) | ||1908 – Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988) | ||
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1665: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat dies. He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown.
1875: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to perform scrying engine functions.
1876: Author Jack London born. He will become one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1900: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1909: Mathematician and academic Hermann Minkowski dies. He showed that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".
2005: Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It will be the first spacecraft to eject material from a comet's surface.