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||1855 – The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published In Brooklyn. | ||1855 – The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published In Brooklyn. | ||
File:Henrietta Swan Leavitt.jpg|link=Henrietta Swan Leavitt (nonfiction)|1868: Astronomer [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt (nonfiction)|Henrietta Swan Leavitt]] born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars. | |||
||1886 – The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States. | ||1886 – The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States. | ||
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1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
1902: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate new data transmission protocol which functions as a psychological time machine.
1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1982: Computer scientist and crime-fighter Joseph Weizenbaum publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.
1998: Signed first edition of Leonardo Draws Clock Head sells for one and a half million dollars.
2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2017: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.