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||1856 – William Willett, English inventor, founded British Summer Time (d. 1915) | ||1856 – William Willett, English inventor, founded British Summer Time (d. 1915) | ||
||Georg Alexander Pick (b. 10 August 1859) was an Austrian born mathematician. Today he is best known for Pick's theorem for determining the area of lattice polygons. Pic. | |||
||1862 – Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829) | ||1862 – Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829) | ||
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1602: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1792: Allumette enflammée inverse, symbol of Les Empyrées, accidentally sets fire to Dr. Guillotine.
1792: French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
1896: Engineer and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt warns "flying man" Otto Lilienthal that he is in danger, but Lilienthal insists that his career depends upon "never backing down from the sky."
1896: Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, known as the flying man, dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.
1957: X-ray crystallographer and crime-fighter Rosalind Franklin publishes new theory of Gnomon algorithm functions based on the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against chemistry.
1960: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
2017: The Eel Time-Surfing sells for two million dollars.