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||1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens. | ||1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens. | ||
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1888: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | |File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1888: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | ||
||1896 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (b. 1819) | ||1896 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (b. 1819) | ||
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||1908 – Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (d. 1996) | ||1908 – Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (d. 1996) | ||
File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|[[Albert Einstein]] performs at charity concert to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel. | ||1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel. | ||
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||2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. | ||2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. | ||
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1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.
Albert Einstein performs at charity concert to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
1976: The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.
1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.