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||Elijah J. McCoy (b. 1844) was a Canadian-American inventor and engineer who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most having to do with the lubrication of steam engines. | |||
File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] born. | File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] born. |
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1196: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, and the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1519: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
1779: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler publishes treatise on mathematical terminology and notation for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.
1986: Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.