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| − | * '''7''' - Yehudi Menuhin gives his first solo violin performance with the San Francisco Symphony in 1923.
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| − | * '''8''' - [[Pablo Picasso]] paints his "Picador".
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| − | * '''8''' - [[Frederic Chopin]] plays his first public piano performance, having already authored two polonaises (G minor and B flat major) at age 7.
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| − | * '''10''' - [[Michael Kearney]], '''home schooled''', is the world's youngest university graduate earning a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of South Alabama. At age 17, began a teaching career at college. <ref>[http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080617185918AAum3vj Who is the YOUNGEST person 2 graduate college?] Yahoo Answers</ref>
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| − | * '''12''' - [[Blaise Pascal]] had secretly worked out the first twenty-three propositions of Euclid by himself.
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| − | * '''12''' - [[Jesus]] presents His wisdom in the temple in [[Jerusalem]].
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| | * '''13''' - [[John]] wrote the first draft of the [[Gospel of John]], the greatest written work of all time.<ref>[[Mystery:Was John a Child?]]</ref> | | * '''13''' - [[John]] wrote the first draft of the [[Gospel of John]], the greatest written work of all time.<ref>[[Mystery:Was John a Child?]]</ref> |
| | * '''13''' - [[Joan of Arc]] was inspired and led [[France]] five years later to victory over the English in the [[Hundred Years War]]; was martyred at age 19.<ref>http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/History/Joan_of_Arc.shtml</ref> | | * '''13''' - [[Joan of Arc]] was inspired and led [[France]] five years later to victory over the English in the [[Hundred Years War]]; was martyred at age 19.<ref>http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/History/Joan_of_Arc.shtml</ref> |
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| | * '''19''' - [[John D. Rockefeller]] starts a new company, turning an enormous profit in its first year, and became the most influential businessman in history.<ref>http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pu-Ro/Rockefeller-John-D.html</ref> | | * '''19''' - [[John D. Rockefeller]] starts a new company, turning an enormous profit in its first year, and became the most influential businessman in history.<ref>http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pu-Ro/Rockefeller-John-D.html</ref> |
| | * '''19''' - Mark Zuckerberg develops Facebook, the leading social networking system for young people on the [[internet]] | | * '''19''' - Mark Zuckerberg develops Facebook, the leading social networking system for young people on the [[internet]] |
| − | * '''20''' - Carl Friedrich Gauss makes his first mathematical discoveries, which will lead to the completion of "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae", his magnum opus, at the age of 21.
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| − | * '''20''' - Willis Carrier invents air conditioning
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