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||1860: Johannes Max Brückner born ... geometer, known for his collection of polyhedral models. Pic: polyhedra. | ||1860: Johannes Max Brückner born ... geometer, known for his collection of polyhedral models. Pic: polyhedra. | ||
||1872: Oswaldo Cruz dies ... physician, pioneer bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer. Pic. | |||
||1894: Ludwik Hirszfeld born ... microbiologist and serologist. He is considered a co-discoverer of the inheritance of ABO blood types. Pic. | ||1894: Ludwik Hirszfeld born ... microbiologist and serologist. He is considered a co-discoverer of the inheritance of ABO blood types. Pic. | ||
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1816: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
1901: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1910: Mathematician Julius Petersen dies. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs is a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1921: New version of Bernoulli family tree powered by cellular automata.
1920: Artist George Tooker born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
1981: Musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits begins North American tour.
2018: Creature 3 voted Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.