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||1930: W. Wallace Cleland born ... biochemist and educator. | ||1930: W. Wallace Cleland born ... biochemist and educator. | ||
||1931: Harry Clarke dies ... stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Clarke was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. Pic. | |||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] signs his last patent application. | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] signs his last patent application. | ||
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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.
2016: Violet Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.