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||1862: In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
||1862: In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
||1866: George Everest dies ... surveyor and geographer who served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843. He is best known for having Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, named in his honor. Pic.


File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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||1935: Bernhard Schmidt dies ... engineer and optician ... He invented the Schmidt telescope which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making possible for the first time the construction of very large, wide-angled reflective cameras of short exposure time for astronomical research. Pic.
||1935: Bernhard Schmidt dies ... engineer and optician ... He invented the Schmidt telescope which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making possible for the first time the construction of very large, wide-angled reflective cameras of short exposure time for astronomical research. Pic.


||1940: Jerry Lawson born ... electronic engineer and inventor.
||1940: Jerry Lawson born ... electronic engineer and inventor ... known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console as well as pioneering the commercial video game cartridge. Pic.


File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

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