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||1561: Christoph Grienberger born ... Jesuit astronomer, after whom the crater Gruemberger on the Moon is named. Pic: book cover. | ||1561: Christoph Grienberger born ... Jesuit astronomer, after whom the crater Gruemberger on the Moon is named. Pic: book cover. | ||
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||1876: Harriet Brooks born ... Canadian physicist and academic. Pic. | ||1876: Harriet Brooks born ... Canadian physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1892: Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin born ... businessman and inventor of encryption machines. Pic. | ||1892: Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin born ... businessman and inventor of encryption machines. Pic. | ||
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File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1937: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. | File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1937: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. | ||
||1906: Hans Albrecht Bethe born ... nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. | ||1906: Hans Albrecht Bethe born ... nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. Pic. | ||
||1947: Nikolai Chebotaryov dies ... mathematician and theorist ... best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem. Pic. | ||1947: Nikolai Chebotaryov dies ... mathematician and theorist ... best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem. Pic. | ||
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1698: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
1699: Omar Khayyam publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1778: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.
1850: Stokes' theorem appeared for the first time as a postscript to a letter from Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) to Stokes. By the time Stokes died, the theorem was universally known as "Stokes' theorem."
1897: British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1937: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue Flower used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.