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||1453: Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire. | ||1453: Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire. | ||
||1660: Frans van Schooten dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1660: Frans van Schooten dies ... mathematician and academic. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1675: Humphry Ditton born ... mathematician and philosopher | ||1675: Humphry Ditton born ... mathematician and philosopher. No pics online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Humphry+Ditton+mathematician | ||
File:John Mudge.jpg|link=John Mudge (nonfiction)|1777: Physician and engineer [[John Mudge (nonfiction)|John Mudge]] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'. | File:John Mudge.jpg|link=John Mudge (nonfiction)|1777: Physician and engineer [[John Mudge (nonfiction)|John Mudge]] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'. | ||
||1780: Henri Braconnot born ... chemist and pharmacist. | ||1780: Henri Braconnot born ... chemist and pharmacist. Pic. | ||
||1781: John Walker born ... invented the friction match. | ||1781: John Walker born ... invented the friction match. | ||
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||1931: Christopher Riche Evans born ... psychologist, computer scientist, and author. Pic: http://www.cdpa.co.uk/Newman/MHAN/view-item.php?Box=3&Folder=4&Item=3&Page=1 | ||1931: Christopher Riche Evans born ... psychologist, computer scientist, and author. Pic: http://www.cdpa.co.uk/Newman/MHAN/view-item.php?Box=3&Folder=4&Item=3&Page=1 | ||
||1937: Mathematician Lucjan Böttcher dies ... He will contribute to functional | ||1937: Mathematician Lucjan Böttcher dies ... He will contribute to functional equations, theory of iterations, and the dynamics of holomorphic functions. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lucjan+Böttcher | ||
equations, theory of iterations, and the dynamics of holomorphic functions. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lucjan+Böttcher | |||
||1970: John "Jack" Roland Redman ... admiral in the United States Navy. A naval communications officer, he played key roles in signals intelligence during World War II in Washington, D.C., and on the staff of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+"Jack"+Roland+Redman&oq=John+"Jack"+Roland+Redman | ||1970: John "Jack" Roland Redman ... admiral in the United States Navy. A naval communications officer, he played key roles in signals intelligence during World War II in Washington, D.C., and on the staff of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+"Jack"+Roland+Redman&oq=John+"Jack"+Roland+Redman | ||
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1777: Physician and engineer John Mudge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'.
1917: Politician John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born.
1919: Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin view a solar eclipse as a test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Blue Flower reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of blue.