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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.
1931: Psychologist, computer scientist, and author Christopher Evans born.

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 ||2015: George Roger Sell dies ... mathematician, specializing in differential equations, dynamical systems, and applications to fluid dynamics, climate modeling, control systems. U of MN. Pic search.
-File:Blue Flower.jpg|link=Blue Flower (nonfiction)|2016: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Blue Flower (nonfiction)|Blue Flower]]'' reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of [[Blue (nonfiction)|blue]].
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