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||1907: Professor Alexander Stewart Herschel dies ... astronomer. He did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy, and worked on identifying comets as the source of meteor showers. The Herschel graph, the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph, is named after him. Pic. | ||1907: Professor Alexander Stewart Herschel dies ... astronomer. He did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy, and worked on identifying comets as the source of meteor showers. The Herschel graph, the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph, is named after him. Pic. | ||
||1910: Maurice Stevenson Bartlett born ... statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis. | ||1910: Maurice Stevenson Bartlett born ... statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis. Pic. | ||
||1913: Mathematician Oswald Teichmüller born. Pic. | ||1913: Mathematician Oswald Teichmüller born. Pic. | ||
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||1922: Jacobus Kapteyn dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||1922: Jacobus Kapteyn dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||
||1926: Allan Sandage born ... astronomer and cosmologist. | ||1926: Allan Sandage born ... astronomer and cosmologist. Pic. | ||
File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1928: Aviator [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic). | File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1928: Aviator [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic). | ||
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1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.
2017: Culvert Origenes and The Governess wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.