On this day in 1846, Le Verrier wrote to Johann Galle at the Berlin Observatory asking him to look for a planet at the position he predicted. Galle located Neptune five days later.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1958.
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Born:
1752: Adrien-Marie Legendre Ⓟ
1819: Léon Foucault Ⓟ
1863: William Metzler Ⓟ
1909: Johannes Haantjes Ⓟ
Died:
1783: Leonhard Euler Ⓟ
1891: William Ferrel Ⓟ
1896: Hippolyte Fizeau Ⓟ
1969: Joseph Pierce Ⓟ
1977: Paul Bernays Ⓟ
2002: Siobhán Vernon Ⓟ
