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||1741: Vitus Bering born ... hydrographer and explorer. | ||1741: Vitus Bering born ... hydrographer and explorer. | ||
||1752: François Isaac de Rivaz born ... inventor and a politician. He invented a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine with electric ignition and described it in a French patent published in 1807. In 1808 he fitted it into a primitive working vehicle – "the world's first internal combustion powered automobile". | |||
||1852: Albert Abraham Michelson born ... physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1852: Albert Abraham Michelson born ... physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1601: Mathematician Robert Fludd uses Gnomon algorithm to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.
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1901: Inventor and engineer Rudolf Hell born. He will invent the Hellschreiber teleprinter system.
1953: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.