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||635: K'inich Kan Bahlam II born ... Mayan king. | ||635: K'inich Kan Bahlam II born ... Mayan king. Wikipedia does not support DOB or DOD. Pic: tablet. | ||
||1430: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiègne. | ||1430: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiègne. Pic. | ||
||1498: Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. | ||1498: Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. Pic. | ||
||1606: Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz born ... mathematician and philosopher. | ||1606: Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1617: Elias Ashmole born ... astrologer and politician. | ||1617: Elias Ashmole born ... astrologer and politician. | ||
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||1887: Thoralf Skolem born ... mathematician and theorist. | ||1887: Thoralf Skolem born ... mathematician and theorist. | ||
||1857: Augustin-Louis Cauchy dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1857: Augustin-Louis Cauchy dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents. | File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents. | ||
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1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.
1917: Mathematician Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.
1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.
1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.