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||1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey). | ||1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey). | ||
File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|1851: Famed gem detective and crime-fighter [[Niles Cartouchian]] accuses rival gem detective [[Egon Rhodomunde]] of trafficking in illegal [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]]. | File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1851: Famed gem detective and crime-fighter [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]] accuses rival gem detective [[Egon Rhodomunde]] of trafficking in illegal [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]]. | ||
||1852 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (b. 1823) | ||1852 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (b. 1823) | ||
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||1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up). | ||1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up). | ||
File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist [[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] dies. | File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist [[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] dies. | ||
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||2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. | ||2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. | ||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2009: [[Rhizolith Group]] draws record crowds at [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood neighborhood]] Arts Festival. | File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|2002: Gem detective and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] accuses actor-crytographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] of trafficking in illegal [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]]. | ||
|File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2009: [[Rhizolith Group]] draws record crowds at [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood neighborhood]] Arts Festival. | |||
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1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.
1851: Famed gem detective and crime-fighter Niles Cartouchian (1900s) accuses rival gem detective Egon Rhodomunde of trafficking in illegal time crystals.
1889: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1940: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange dies.
2002: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses actor-crytographer Niles Cartouchian of trafficking in illegal time crystals.