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File:Nicolaus I Bernoulli.jpg|link=Nicolaus I Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1687: Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaus I Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Nicolaus I Bernoulli]] born. He will introduce a successful resolution to the [[St. Petersburg paradox (nonfiction)|St. Petersburg paradox]]. | File:Nicolaus I Bernoulli.jpg|link=Nicolaus I Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1687: Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaus I Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Nicolaus I Bernoulli]] born. He will introduce a successful resolution to the [[St. Petersburg paradox (nonfiction)|St. Petersburg paradox]]. | ||
File:Nebula orionis as depicted by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1758.jpg|link=Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|1768: Astronomer and adventurer [[Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|Guillaume Le Gentil]] publicly accuses the [[House of Malevecchio]] of [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. The [[Malvecchians|House of Malevecchio]] will back down from the encounter, but later secretly punish [[Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|Le Gentil]] by creating overcast conditions on June 4, 1769. | |||
||1788: George Combe born ... lawyer who turned to the promotion of phrenology and published several works on the subject. He followed Franz Josef Gall in Paris. Gall was a French physician who identified a number of areas on the surface of the head that he linked with specific localizations of cerebral functions and the underlying attributes of the human personality. Combe established the first infant school in Edinburgh and gave evening lectures. He studied the criminal classes and lunatic asylums wishing to reform them. Pic. | ||1788: George Combe born ... lawyer who turned to the promotion of phrenology and published several works on the subject. He followed Franz Josef Gall in Paris. Gall was a French physician who identified a number of areas on the surface of the head that he linked with specific localizations of cerebral functions and the underlying attributes of the human personality. Combe established the first infant school in Edinburgh and gave evening lectures. He studied the criminal classes and lunatic asylums wishing to reform them. Pic. | ||
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1687: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaus I Bernoulli born. He will introduce a successful resolution to the St. Petersburg paradox.
1768: Astronomer and adventurer Guillaume Le Gentil publicly accuses the House of Malevecchio of crimes against astronomical constants. The House of Malevecchio will back down from the encounter, but later secretly punish Le Gentil by creating overcast conditions on June 4, 1769.
1914: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner born. His interests will include stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.
1958: National Pareidolia Day declared in the United States.
1969: Mathematician and academic Wacław Sierpiński dies. He made important contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and topology.
2017: Green Spiral 9 feels more green than ever, according to new chromatographic survey.