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File:Ernst Kummer.jpg|link=Ernst Kummer (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician [[Ernst Kummer (nonfiction)|Ernst Kummer]] born. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics. | File:Ernst Kummer.jpg|link=Ernst Kummer (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician [[Ernst Kummer (nonfiction)|Ernst Kummer]] born. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics. | ||
||1897: Robert Ludvigovich Bartini born ... aircraft designer and scientist, involved in the development of numerous successful and experimental aircraft projects. A pioneer of amphibious aircraft and ground effect vehicles, Bartini was one of the most famous engineers in the Soviet Union. Pic search | ||1897: Robert Ludvigovich Bartini born ... aircraft designer and scientist, involved in the development of numerous successful and experimental aircraft projects. A pioneer of amphibious aircraft and ground effect vehicles, Bartini was one of the most famous engineers in the Soviet Union. Pic search. | ||
||1897: Ed Ricketts born ... marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher. He is best known for Between Pacific Tides (1939), a pioneering study of intertidal ecology, and for his influence on writer John Steinbeck, which resulted in their collaboration on the Sea of Cortez, later republished as The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951). Pic. | ||1897: Ed Ricketts born ... marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher. He is best known for Between Pacific Tides (1939), a pioneering study of intertidal ecology, and for his influence on writer John Steinbeck, which resulted in their collaboration on the Sea of Cortez, later republished as The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951). Pic. | ||
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File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | ||
||1945: Isis Pogson dies ... astronomer and meteorologist. Pic search | ||1945: Isis Pogson dies ... astronomer and meteorologist. Pic search. | ||
||1947: John Ray Sinnock dies ... the eighth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1925 to 1947. Roosevelt dime sculptor. Pic. | ||1947: John Ray Sinnock dies ... the eighth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1925 to 1947. Roosevelt dime sculptor. Pic. | ||
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||1961: The world's first nuclear ramjet engine, "Tory-IIA", mounted on a railroad car, roared to life for a few seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto | ||1961: The world's first nuclear ramjet engine, "Tory-IIA", mounted on a railroad car, roared to life for a few seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto | ||
||1964: Mara Neusel born ... mathematician, author, and academic ... an advocate for women in mathematics. The focus of her mathematical work was on invariant theory. Pic search | ||1964: Mara Neusel born ... mathematician, author, and academic ... an advocate for women in mathematics. The focus of her mathematical work was on invariant theory. Pic search. | ||
||1967: American cryptanalyst and Soviet NKVD agent Bill Weisband dies ... revealed the Venona Project, U.S. decryptions of Soviet diplomatic and intelligence codes to Soviet intelligence. Pic. | |||
||1973: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. | ||1973: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. | ||
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||2007: Stephen E. Straus dies ... physician, immunologist, virologist and science administrator. He is particularly known for his research into human herpesviruses and chronic fatigue syndrome, and for his discovery of the autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome genetic disorder. Pic. | ||2007: Stephen E. Straus dies ... physician, immunologist, virologist and science administrator. He is particularly known for his research into human herpesviruses and chronic fatigue syndrome, and for his discovery of the autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome genetic disorder. Pic. | ||
||2015: Stanton J. Peale dies ... astrophysicist and academic. Pic seach | ||2015: Stanton J. Peale dies ... astrophysicist and academic. Pic seach. | ||
||2016: Darwyn Cooke dies ... comic book writer and artist. | ||2016: Darwyn Cooke dies ... comic book writer and artist. | ||
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1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. Horrebow will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1893: Mathematician Ernst Kummer dies. Kummer contributed to abstract algebra; in ring theory, he introduced the term ideal.
1893: Mathematician Ernst Kummer born. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics.
1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. Christy will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
2018: Signed first edition of Butterfly unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during an otherwise routine high-energy literature experiment.