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||1828: William Hyde Wollaston dies ... chemist and physicist. Pic.
||1828: William Hyde Wollaston dies ... chemist and physicist. Pic.


||1839 – John Nevil Maskelyne, English magician (d. 1917)
||1839: John Nevil Maskelyne born ... magician.


||1853 – Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (d. 1919)
||1853: Evgraf Fedorov born ... mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist.


File:Giacomo Puccini.jpg|link=Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|1858: Composer [[Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|Giacomo Puccini]] born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
File:Giacomo Puccini.jpg|link=Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|1858: Composer [[Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|Giacomo Puccini]] born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".


||Otto Ludwig Hölder (b. December 22, 1859) was a German mathematician. He will discover Hölder's inequality, a fundamental inequality between integrals and an indispensable tool for the study of Lp spaces. Pic.
||1859: Otto Ludwig Hölder dies ... mathematician. He will discover Hölder's inequality, a fundamental inequality between integrals and an indispensable tool for the study of Lp spaces. Pic.


||1867 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788)
||1867: Jean-Victor Poncelet dies ... French mathematician and engineer.


||1869 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1931) Dmitri Fyodorovich Egorov (Russian: Дми́трий Фёдорович Его́ров; December 22, 1869 – September 10, 1931) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for significant contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis.  
||1869: Dmitri Egorov born ... mathematician and academic ... known for significant contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis.  Pic.


||1884 – St. Elmo Brady, African American chemist and educator (d. 1966)
||1884: St. Elmo Brady, African American chemist and educator.


||1884: John Simpson Chisum dies ... wealthy cattle baron in the American West in the mid-to-late 19th century.  
||1884: John Simpson Chisum dies ... wealthy cattle baron in the American West in the mid-to-late 19th century.  


||August Yulevich Davidov (d. December 22, 1885) was a Russian mathematician and engineer, professor at Moscow University, and author of works on differential equations with partial derivatives, definite integrals, and the application of probability theory to statistics, and textbooks on elementary mathematics. Pic.
||1885: August Yulevich Davidov dies ... mathematician and engineer, professor at Moscow University, and author of works on differential equations with partial derivatives, definite integrals, and the application of probability theory to statistics, and textbooks on elementary mathematics. Pic.


File:Srinivasa_Ramanujan.jpg|link=Srinivasa Ramanujan (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and theorist [[Srinivasa Ramanujan (nonfiction)|Srinivasa Ramanujan]] born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.  
File:Srinivasa_Ramanujan.jpg|link=Srinivasa Ramanujan (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and theorist [[Srinivasa Ramanujan (nonfiction)|Srinivasa Ramanujan]] born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.  
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||1942: World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
||1942: World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.


||1943: dies Henri Abraham ... was a French physicist who made important contributions to the science of radio waves. He performed some of the first measurements of the propagation velocity of radio waves, helped develop France's first triode vacuum tube, and with Eugene Bloch invented the astable multivibrator.
||1943: Physicicist Henri Abraham dies. He made important contributions to the science of radio waves. He performed some of the first measurements of the propagation velocity of radio waves, helped develop France's first triode vacuum tube, and with Eugene Bloch invented the astable multivibrator.


||1964: The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
||1964: The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.

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  • 1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

    1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

  • 1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."

    1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."

  • 1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."

    1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."

  • 1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.

    1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.

  • 1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

    1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

  • 1887: Mathematician and theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.

    1887: Mathematician and theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.

  • 1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

    1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

  • 1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.

    1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.

  • 2016: Chromatographic analysis of Red Spiral 3 reveals "at least four, possibly five" previously unknown shades of red.

    2016: Chromatographic analysis of Red Spiral 3 reveals "at least four, possibly five" previously unknown shades of red.

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