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||1786: Giovanni Battista Amici born ... astronomer, microscopist, and botanist. Pic. | ||1786: Giovanni Battista Amici born ... astronomer, microscopist, and botanist. Pic. | ||
||1798: Christoph Gudermann born ... mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence. Pic search | ||1798: Christoph Gudermann born ... mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence. Pic search. | ||
||1807: The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire. | ||1807: The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire. | ||
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||1800: Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen born ... geologist and academic. He studied the coal-formation of Westphalia and northern Europe generally, and contributed to the theory and practice of mining and metallurgical works in Rhenish Prussia. Pic. | ||1800: Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen born ... geologist and academic. He studied the coal-formation of Westphalia and northern Europe generally, and contributed to the theory and practice of mining and metallurgical works in Rhenish Prussia. Pic. | ||
||1818: Caspar Wessel born ... mathematician and cartographer. Pic search | ||1818: Caspar Wessel born ... mathematician and cartographer. Pic search. | ||
File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1857: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] is receives a patent for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image. | File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1857: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] is receives a patent for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image. | ||
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||1900: John Henry "Professor" Pepper dies ... scientist and inventor who toured the English-speaking world with his scientific demonstrations. He entertained the public, royalty, and fellow scientists with a wide range of technological innovations. He is primarily remembered for developing the projection technique known as Pepper's ghost, building a large-scale version of the concept by Henry Dircks. Pic. | ||1900: John Henry "Professor" Pepper dies ... scientist and inventor who toured the English-speaking world with his scientific demonstrations. He entertained the public, royalty, and fellow scientists with a wide range of technological innovations. He is primarily remembered for developing the projection technique known as Pepper's ghost, building a large-scale version of the concept by Henry Dircks. Pic. | ||
||1912: Melita Norwood born ... English civil servant and spy. Pic search | ||1912: Melita Norwood born ... English civil servant and spy. Pic search. | ||
||1914: Norman Ernest Borlaug born ... agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Pic. | |||
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations. | File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations. | ||
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||1957: United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. | ||1957: United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. | ||
||1960: Ralph Elmer Wilson dies ... astronomer. Pic search | ||1960: Ralph Elmer Wilson dies ... astronomer. Pic search. | ||
||1979: The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch. | ||1979: The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch. | ||
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1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1773: Physician, engineer, and APTO field engineer John Mudge publishes his landmark study Directions for making the best Computation for the Gnomon algorithm for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the Scrying Engine the true Parabolic Curve.
1857: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville is receives a patent for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid dies. He was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
1862: Mathematician and engineer Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne born. He will found the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he will called nomograms.
1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations.
1927: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture on numbered cake algorithms.
1995: Chess player, chess writer, World War II codebreaker and civil servant Philip Stuart Milner-Barry dies. Milner-Barry worked at Bletchley Park during World War II, and was head of "Hut 6", the section responsible for deciphering messages which had been encrypted using the German Enigma machine.