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File:Giordano Bruno crater.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the [[Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|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.
File:Giordano Bruno crater.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the [[Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|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.


File:Gentile da Foligno (Nuremberg Chronicle).jpg|link=Gentile da Foligno (nonfiction)|1348: [[Gentile da Foligno (nonfiction)|Physician and academic [[Gentile da Foligno (nonfiction)|Gentile Gentili da Foligno]] dies. Da Foligno was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341).  
File:Gentile da Foligno (Nuremberg Chronicle).jpg|link=Gentile da Foligno (nonfiction)|1348: Physician and academic [[Gentile da Foligno (nonfiction)|Gentile Gentili da Foligno]] dies. Da Foligno was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341).  


||1650: Christoph Scheiner dies ... priest, physicist, and astronomer. Pic.
||1650: Christoph Scheiner dies ... priest, physicist, and astronomer. Pic.

Revision as of 14:25, 18 June 2019

  • 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.

    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.

  • 1348: Physician and academic Gentile Gentili da Foligno dies. Da Foligno was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341).

    1348: Physician and academic Gentile Gentili da Foligno dies. Da Foligno was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341).

  • 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).

    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.

    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.

    2017: Culvert Origenes and The Governess wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.

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