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||1820 – Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1903) | ||1820 – Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1903) | ||
||Paul Albert Gordan (b. 27 April 1837) was a German mathematician. He was known as "the king of invariant theory". Pic. | |||
||1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus. | ||1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus. | ||
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1869: Only known copy of Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by Baron Zersetzung. Twain and War-Heels will soon team up to recover the illustration.
1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.
1937: Biochemist and crime-fighter John Kendrew uses data from X-ray crystallography experiments to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl dies. He argued that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
1978: Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.