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||1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician and academic (d. 1782) | ||1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician and academic (d. 1782) | ||
||1761 – Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1710) | |||
||1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation. | ||1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation. | ||
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||1888 – Archie Alexander, African-American mathematician and engineer (d. 1958) | ||1888 – Archie Alexander, African-American mathematician and engineer (d. 1958) | ||
||1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1810) | |||
||1897 – Ed Ricketts, American biologist and ecologist (d. 1948) | ||1897 – Ed Ricketts, American biologist and ecologist (d. 1948) | ||
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||1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. | ||1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. | ||
||1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) | |||
||2015 – Stanton J. Peale, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1937) | |||
||2016 – Darwyn Cooke, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1962) | |||
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1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.
1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.