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||1887 – Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic (b. 1802) | ||1887 – Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic (b. 1802) | ||
||Griffith Conrad Evans (b. 11 May 1887) was a mathematician working for much of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He is largely credited with elevating Berkeley's mathematics department to a top-tier research department, | ||Griffith Conrad Evans (b. 11 May 1887) was a mathematician working for much of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He is largely credited with elevating Berkeley's mathematics department to a top-tier research department, having recruited many notable mathematicians in the 1930s and 1940s. | ||
||1891 – Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1820) | ||1891 – Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1820) | ||
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868: A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
1845: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Jacques Philippe Marie Binet publishes new theory of crimes against mathematical constants using fundamental principles of matrix algebra.
1858: Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
1903: Public outrage in response to the short film Electrocuting an Elephant triggers a worldwide outbreak of Scrimshaw abuse.
1918: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman born. He will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
2018: Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada. Mathematician and alleged immortal John Havelock says he is "grateful for the kind words."