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1768: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier born. He will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
1882: Mark Twain admits to experiencing great fear during his famous interview with Wallace War-Heels.
1884: Mathematician George David Birkhoff born. He will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation.
1901: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Nikola Tesla predicts that mathematician George David Birkhoff will be "one of the great crime fighters of his generation."
1924: Physicist Harry Lehmann born. He will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
1928: Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1963: Film rights to Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press sell for nearly a million dollars.
1965: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Green Ring 2 reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color green.

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 ||1925: The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
-||1927: Halton Arp born ... astronomer and critic.
+||1927: Halton Arp born ... astronomer. He was known for his 1966 ''Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies'', which (it was later theorized) catalogues many examples of interacting and merging galaxies, though Arp disputed the idea, claiming apparent associations were prime examples of ejections. Arp was also known as a critic of the Big Bang theory and for advocating a non-standard cosmology incorporating intrinsic redshift. Pic.
 File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh|1928: [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.