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File:John Winthrop.jpg|link=John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|John Winthrop]] publishes an analysis of [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project]]. | File:John Winthrop.jpg|link=John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|John Winthrop]] publishes an analysis of [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project]]. | ||
||1760 | ||1760: Christian Kramp born ... mathematician and academic (d. 1826) | ||
File:Dominique Jean Larrey.jpg|link=Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|1766: Physician and surgeon [[Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|Dominique Jean Larrey]] born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon. | File:Dominique Jean Larrey.jpg|link=Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|1766: Physician and surgeon [[Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|Dominique Jean Larrey]] born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon. | ||
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File:Anna Manzolini.jpg|link=Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|1767: Anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and crime-fighter [[Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|Anna Morandi Manzolini]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[Organic golem]] generation. | File:Anna Manzolini.jpg|link=Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|1767: Anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and crime-fighter [[Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|Anna Morandi Manzolini]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[Organic golem]] generation. | ||
||1784 | ||1784: Torbern Bergman dies ... chemist and mineralogist. | ||
||Torbern Olaf (Olof) Bergman | ||1784: Torbern Olaf (Olof) Bergman dies ... chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published. Bergman was the first chemist to use the A, B, C, etc., system of notation for chemical species. | ||
||1831 | ||1831: John Pemberton born ... chemist and pharmacist, invented Coca-Cola. | ||
||1838 | ||1838: Eli Lilly born ... soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company. | ||
||1838 | ||1838: Ferdinand von Zeppelin born ... general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company. | ||
|| | ||1842: Nikolay Nikolayevich Benardos born ... inventor of Greek origin who in 1881 introduced carbon arc welding, which was the first practical arc welding method. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1876: White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina. | ||
|| | ||1879: Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole. | ||
|| | ||1889: The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published. | ||
||1895 | ||1894: Pyotr Kapitsa born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1895: Johann Josef Loschmidt dies ... chemist and physicist. | |||
||1895: Igor Tamm born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1895: Igor Tamm born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union. | File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union. | ||
||1970 | ||1970: Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. | ||
||1971: Kurt Reidemeister dies ... mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle. | |||
|| | ||1979: Shin'ichirō Tomonaga dies ... physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1979: Robert Burns Woodward dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
|| | ||2002: Ward Kimball dies ... animator and trombonist. | ||
|| | ||2008: Sixto Ríos García dies ... mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics. | ||
|| | ||2011: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. | ||
|| | ||2013: Rubby Sherr dies ... physicist and academic. | ||
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1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.
1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop publishes an analysis of Gnomon algorithm techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project.
1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
1767: Anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and crime-fighter Anna Morandi Manzolini publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent Organic golem generation.
1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.