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||1895: George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. | ||1895: George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. | ||
||1906: Fred Lawrence Whipple born ... astronomer and academic | ||1906: Fred Lawrence Whipple born ... astronomer and academic. | ||
||1916: Edmund Hlawka born ... mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Pic. | ||1916: Edmund Hlawka born ... mathematician. He was a leading number theorist. Pic. | ||
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File:MAVEN spacecraft.jpg|link=MAVEN (nonfiction)|2015: NASA announced that data from the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] shows that the deterioration of Mars’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms. | File:MAVEN spacecraft.jpg|link=MAVEN (nonfiction)|2015: NASA announced that data from the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] shows that the deterioration of Mars’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms. | ||
||2015: George Barris dies ... engineer and car designer | ||2015: George Barris dies ... engineer and car designer. | ||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates second anniversary of NASA announced that data from the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] shows that the deterioration of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates second anniversary of NASA announced that data from the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] shows that the deterioration of [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms. | ||
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1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1849: Polymath, diplomat, jurist, and politician Rui Barbosa born. He will authorize the destruction of most government records relating to slavery, "erasing the stain" of slavery on Brazilian history, yet preventing any possible indemnization of the former slave-owners.
1879: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell dies. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.
1975: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.
2015: NASA announced that data from the MAVEN probe shows that the deterioration of Mars’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates second anniversary of NASA announced that data from the MAVEN probe shows that the deterioration of Mars’ atmosphere increases significantly during solar storms.