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1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.
1888: Rudolf Clausius dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.
1889: Steganographic analysis of Judge Havelock With Glass reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
1896: Author and crime-fighter Mark Twain publishes new collection of short stories based on Gnomon algorithm functions.
1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges born. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
2017: Signed first edition of Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden sells for three million dollars.

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 ||1941 – Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
+||Attilio Palatini (d. 24 August 1949) was an Italian mathematician born in Treviso. He worked in absolute differential calculus and in general relativity. Within this latter subject he gave a sound generalization of the variational principle. Pic.
 ||1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.