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||1920: Iosif Vorovich born ... mathematician and engineer. Vorovich specialized in continuum mechanics and the theory of elasticity; his main works deal with mathematical problems of continuum mechanics, the nonlinear theory of shells, problems of stress concentration and thick plates, and mixed problems in the theory of elasticity. Pic search yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Vorovich
||1920: Iosif Vorovich born ... mathematician and engineer. Vorovich specialized in continuum mechanics and the theory of elasticity; his main works deal with mathematical problems of continuum mechanics, the nonlinear theory of shells, problems of stress concentration and thick plates, and mixed problems in the theory of elasticity. Pic search yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Vorovich


||1923: Lloyd Conover born ... chemist and inventor.
||1923: Lloyd Conover born ... chemist and inventor ... the inventor of tetracycline. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lloyd+Conover&oq=Lloyd+Conover


||1927: Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
||1927: Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City. Pic.


||1928: John Forbes Nash, Jr. born ... mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1928: John Forbes Nash, Jr. born ... mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1947: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes critical review of ''[[The Unruly Submarine]]'', calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1947: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes critical review of ''[[The Unruly Submarine]]'', calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."


||1952 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
||1952: Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.


||1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
||1966: The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.


||1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
||1972: Georg von Békésy dies ... biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
||1977: Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before. Pic.


||Paul Althaus Smith (d. June 13, 1980) was an American mathematician. His name occurs in two significant conjectures in geometric topology: the Smith conjecture, which is now a theorem, and the Hilbert–Smith conjecture, still open as of 2010.  Pic.
||1980: Paul Althaus Smith dies ... mathematician. His name occurs in two significant conjectures in geometric topology: the Smith conjecture, which is now a theorem, and the Hilbert–Smith conjecture, still open as of 2010.  Pic.


||1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
||1983: Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.


||1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
||1994: A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.


||2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
||2010: A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.


||2012: William Standish Knowles dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. He shared half the prize with Ryōji Noyori for their work in asymmetric synthesis, specifically for his work in hydrogenation reactions. Pic.
||2012: William Standish Knowles dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. He shared half the prize with Ryōji Noyori for their work in asymmetric synthesis, specifically for his work in hydrogenation reactions. Pic.

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  • 1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

    1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

  • 1580: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius born. In 1615 he will conduct a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

    1580: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius born. In 1615 he will conduct a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

  • 1629: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat uses scrying engine techniques to download award-winning children's book The Unruly Submarine.

    1629: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat uses scrying engine techniques to download award-winning children's book The Unruly Submarine.

  • 1773: Polymath and physician Thomas Young born. Young will make notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology.

    1773: Polymath and physician Thomas Young born. Young will make notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology.

  • 1831: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.

    1831: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.

  • 1854: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons born. He will invent the compound steam turbine, and work on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

    1854: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons born. He will invent the compound steam turbine, and work on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

  • 1946: Celebrated children's book The Unruly Submarine wins Caldecott Medal.

    1946: Celebrated children's book The Unruly Submarine wins Caldecott Medal.

  • 1947: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes critical review of The Unruly Submarine, calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."

    1947: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes critical review of The Unruly Submarine, calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Embassy stolen from the Louvre in a daring broad daylight raid by agents of the Forbidden Ratio.

    2017: Signed first edition of Embassy stolen from the Louvre in a daring broad daylight raid by agents of the Forbidden Ratio.

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