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||1863 – Paul Drude, German physicist and academic (d. 1906) In 1894 he was responsible for introducing the symbol "c" for the speed of light in a perfect vacuum. | ||1863 – Paul Drude, German physicist and academic (d. 1906) In 1894 he was responsible for introducing the symbol "c" for the speed of light in a perfect vacuum. | ||
||Georg Adolf Erman (d. 12 July 1877) was a German physicist. | |||
||1879 – Margherita Piazzola Beloch, Italian mathematician (d. 1976) | ||1879 – Margherita Piazzola Beloch, Italian mathematician (d. 1976) | ||
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1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1922: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
1967: Mathematician Edward Lorenz uses Gnomon algorithm to reveal previously secret crimes against mathematical constants.
