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||1624 – Henrik Rysensteen, Dutch military engineer (d. 1679)


||1770 – Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist and academic (d. 1831)
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||1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
||1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".


File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1965: [[Brion Gysin]] uses [[scrying engine]] technology to predict th eoutcome of [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lotteries]] with near-quantum accuracy.
|File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1965: [[Brion Gysin]] uses [[scrying engine]] technology to predict th eoutcome of [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lotteries]] with near-quantum accuracy.


||Alexander Dinghas (d. April 19, 1974) was a Greek mathematician. Pic.
||Alexander Dinghas (d. April 19, 1974) was a Greek mathematician. Pic.

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  • 1912: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg born. He will share the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.

    1912: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg born. He will share the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.

  • 1913: Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most prescient illustration of the decade".

    1913: Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most prescient illustration of the decade".

  • 1914: Mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce dies. He is remembered as "the father of pragmatism".

    1914: Mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce dies. He is remembered as "the father of pragmatism".

  • 2016: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate Walter Kohn dies. He developed density functional theory, which makes it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density (rather than the many-body wavefunction).

    2016: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate Walter Kohn dies. He developed density functional theory, which makes it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density (rather than the many-body wavefunction).

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of Shell unexpectedly reveals "at least four-thousand and ninety six kilobytes" of encrypted data.

    2017: Steganographic analysis of Shell unexpectedly reveals "at least four-thousand and ninety six kilobytes" of encrypted data.

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