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File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] born. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', will be prized by gamblers. | File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] born. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', will be prized by gamblers. | ||
||Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler (b. 26 May 1814) was a skilled glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube. | |||
||Henri Farman (b. 26 May 1874) was an Anglo-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. | ||Henri Farman (b. 26 May 1874) was an Anglo-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. | ||
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1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.
2016: New autobiography by Didacus automaton accuses Baron Zersetzung of crimes against mathematical constants.
1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born.
1936: Enrico Fermi publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.