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File:Sunspots.jpg|link=Sunspot (nonfiction)|28 BC: A [[Sunspot (nonfiction)|sunspot]] is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. | File:Sunspots.jpg|link=Sunspot (nonfiction)|28 BC: A [[Sunspot (nonfiction)|sunspot]] is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. | ||
File:Toscanelli.jpg|link=Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (nonfiction)|1482: Mathematician and astronomer [[Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (nonfiction)|Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli]] dies. Thanks to his long life, his intelligence and his wide interests, Toscanelli was one of the central figures in the intellectual and cultural history of Renaissance Florence in its early years. | File:Toscanelli.jpg|link=Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (nonfiction)|1482: Mathematician and astronomer [[Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (nonfiction)|Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli]] dies. Thanks to his long life, his intelligence and his wide interests, Toscanelli was one of the central figures in the intellectual and cultural history of Renaissance Florence in its early years. | ||
||1566: Leonhart Fuchs dies ... physician and botanist. Pic. | ||1566: Leonhart Fuchs dies ... physician and botanist. Pic. | ||
||1787: William Watson dies ... physician, physicist, and botanist. Pic. | ||1787: William Watson dies ... physician, physicist, and botanist. Pic. | ||
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File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.jpg|link=Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|1900: Astronomer and astrophysicist [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]] born. Her doctoral thesis will establish that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe. | File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.jpg|link=Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|1900: Astronomer and astrophysicist [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]] born. Her doctoral thesis will establish that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe. | ||
||1901: John Desmond Bernal born ... scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal was a political supporter of Communism and wrote popular books on science and society. Pic. | ||1901: John Desmond Bernal born ... scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal was a political supporter of Communism and wrote popular books on science and society. Pic. | ||
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|link=|2009: Carol Jo Crannell dies ... a solar physicist known for her work on solar flares and on the astrophysical observation of x-rays and gamma rays. Pic: https://ggstem.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/carol-jo-crannell/ | |link=|2009: Carol Jo Crannell dies ... a solar physicist known for her work on solar flares and on the astrophysical observation of x-rays and gamma rays. Pic: https://ggstem.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/carol-jo-crannell/ | ||
||2017: Gaisi Takeuti dies ... mathematician, known for his work in proof theory. His goal was to prove the consistency of the real numbers. To this end, Takeuti's conjecture speculates that a sequent formalisation of second-order logic has cut-elimination. Pic search | ||2017: Gaisi Takeuti dies ... mathematician, known for his work in proof theory. His goal was to prove the consistency of the real numbers. To this end, Takeuti's conjecture speculates that a sequent formalisation of second-order logic has cut-elimination. Pic search. | ||
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28 BC: A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
1482: Mathematician and astronomer Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli dies. Thanks to his long life, his intelligence and his wide interests, Toscanelli was one of the central figures in the intellectual and cultural history of Renaissance Florence in its early years.
1829: Polymath and physician Thomas Young dies. Young made notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology.
1900: Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin born. Her doctoral thesis will establish that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.
1906: New York mobster and hit man Abe Reles born. A notorious killer, he will fall to his death in 1941 while under police custody, ostensibly a failed escape attempt but widely believed to be murder.
1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel challenges aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter to single combat, providing a distraction which enables the USS Triton to escape Slaughter's deadly mutant Cuttle-Net.
1960: The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.