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||2000 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931) | ||2000 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931) | ||
||Thomas Greenway Stockham (d. January 6, 2004) was an American scientist who developed one of the first practical digital audio recording systems, and pioneered techniques for digital audio recording and processing as well. Pic. | |||
||2012 – Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist and engineer (b. 1938) | ||2012 – Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist and engineer (b. 1938) | ||
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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
2015: Color commentators call John Hoyland's Lebanon "colorful in a way that defies description."
2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.
