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||1879: Ignaz "Igo" Etrich born ... flight pioneer, pilot and fixed-wing aircraft developer. Pic: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igo_Etrich | ||1879: Ignaz "Igo" Etrich born ... flight pioneer, pilot and fixed-wing aircraft developer. Pic: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igo_Etrich | ||
||1898: Jesse Wakefield Beams born ... physicist. Manhattan project, gravestone. | ||1898: Jesse Wakefield Beams born ... physicist. Manhattan project, gravestone. | ||
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||1930: Eugen Goldstein born ... physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton. Pic search. | ||1930: Eugen Goldstein born ... physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton. Pic search. | ||
||1935: Submarine ''Plongeur'' decommissioned. Pic. | ||1935: Submarine ''Plongeur'' decommissioned. Pic. | ||
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||1975: Gunnar Kangro dies ... mathematician and author. Pic. | ||1975: Gunnar Kangro dies ... mathematician and author. Pic. | ||
||1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union. | ||1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union. | ||
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File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|2016: Astronomer and academic [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves. | File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|2016: Astronomer and academic [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves. | ||
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1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. Mazzei will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. Chappe will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.