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||1519 – Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, German humanist and physician (d. 1585) | ||1519 – Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, German humanist and physician (d. 1585). Pic. | ||
||1718 – Blackbeard, English pirate (b. 1680) | ||1718 – Blackbeard, English pirate (b. 1680). Pic. | ||
||1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-Canadian cartographer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1824) | ||1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-Canadian cartographer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1824). Pic. | ||
||Giusto Bellavitis (b. 22 November 1803) was an Italian mathematician, senator, and municipal councilor. His principle achievement is the invention of the method of equipollences, a new method of analytic geometry that is both philosophical and fruitful. Pic. | ||Giusto Bellavitis (b. 22 November 1803) was an Italian mathematician, senator, and municipal councilor. His principle achievement is the invention of the method of equipollences, a new method of analytic geometry that is both philosophical and fruitful. Pic. | ||
||1813 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (b. 1759) | ||1813 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (b. 1759). Pic. | ||
||Karl Christian Bruhns | ||1830: Karl Christian Bruhns ... German astronomer. Pic. | ||
||1896 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, invented the Ferris wheel (b. 1859) | ||1896 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, invented the Ferris wheel (b. 1859). Pic. | ||
||1897 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer and educator (d. 1989) | ||1897 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer and educator (d. 1989). No pic. | ||
||1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000) | ||1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000). Pic. | ||
||1907: Asaph Hall III born ... an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double stars, the rotation of Saturn, and the mass of Mars. | |||
||1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (d. 1970) | ||1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (d. 1970) |
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1916: Author Jack London dies. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1946: ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") successfully refactors the Wow! signal.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series provides formula for clandestiphrine, authorities expect rise in crimes against mathematical constants.
1963: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1963: United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.
1965: Umbrella Man witnesses rubbed with Clandestiphrine, 73% die of stack overflow allergy. Witness Protection Program implements software patch to prevent recurrence.
1967: Clandestiphrine trafficking money laundered via The Little Petroleum Sample That Could, say transdimensional drug authorities.
1998: Physicist Harry Lehmann dies. He contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.