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||1570: The first atlas, ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'', is published with 70 maps. | ||1570: The first atlas, ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'', is published with 70 maps. ??? | ||
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds. | File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds. | ||
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||1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri. | ||1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri. | ||
||1849: Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent. | ||1849: Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent. Pic. | ||
||1856: Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery. | ||1856: Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery. | ||
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||1916: Albrecht Fröhlich born ... mathematician famous for his major results and conjectures on Galois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers. Pic: https://opc.mfo.de/detail?photo_id=9239&would_like_to_publish=1 | ||1916: Albrecht Fröhlich born ... mathematician famous for his major results and conjectures on Galois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers. Pic: https://opc.mfo.de/detail?photo_id=9239&would_like_to_publish=1 | ||
||1920: Thomas Gold born ... astrophysicist and academic. | ||1920: Thomas Gold born ... astrophysicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1927: George Andrew Olah born ... chemist and academic ... His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry." Pic. | ||1927: George Andrew Olah born ... chemist and academic ... His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry." Pic. | ||
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1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses 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) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.
1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.