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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.
||1639: Niccolò Arrighetti dies ... intellectual, pupil and associate of Galileo Galilei. Pic: ceremonial 'bran shovel' .


||1660: Frans van Schooten dies ... mathematician and academic. No DOB. Pic.
||1660: Frans van Schooten dies ... mathematician and academic. No DOB. Pic.
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||1780: Henri Braconnot born ... chemist and pharmacist. Pic.
||1780: Henri Braconnot born ... chemist and pharmacist. Pic.


||1781: John Walker born ... invented the friction match.
||1781: John Walker born ... invented the friction match. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+walker+inventor


||1794: Johann Heinrich von Mädler born ... astronomer and selenographer (d. 1874)
||1794: Johann Heinrich von Mädler born ... astronomer and selenographer.


||1823: John H. Balsley born ... carpenter and inventor.
||1823: John H. Balsley born ... carpenter and inventor.

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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'.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    2016: Chromatographic analysis of Blue Flower reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of blue.

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