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|File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1637: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | |File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1637: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1567 | ||1567: François d'Aguilon born ... Jesuit mathematician (d. 1617) François d'Aguilon (also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) ... Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect. Pic: book plate. | ||
||1752 | ||1752: Gabriel Cramer dies ... mathematician and physicist. | ||
||Captain François Mingaud | ||1771: Captain François Mingaud born ... infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as the inventor of the leather tip for a billiards cue, a "possibly not original idea" that he perfected while imprisoned in Bicêtre (now Bicêtre Hospital) for political outspokenness. This revolutionized the game of billiards, allowing the cue ball to be finely manipulated by the application of spin. Pic. | ||
||1809 | ||1809: Louis Braille born ... educator, invented Braille. | ||
File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1847: [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government. | File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1847: [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government. | ||
||1882 | ||1882: John William Draper dies ... physician, chemist, and photographer. | ||
||Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel | ||1888: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel born ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. | ||
||1895 | ||1895: Leroy Grumman born ... engineer and businessman, co-founded Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co. | ||
File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]''. | File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]''. |
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1847: Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film Electrocuting an Elephant.
1932: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi born. He will work on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.
1934: Mathematician and crime-fighter Dmitry Mirimanoff publishes new type of Gnomon algorithm function which uses non-well-founded set theory to predict that Sputnik 1 will fall to Earth "no later than January 1958."
1958: Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
1959: Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1961: Physicist and academic Erwin Schrödinger dies. He was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.
1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
2002: Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.
2003: George Plimpton published first in prize-winning series of articles on capacitor plague.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Red Spiral 2 accidentally release the notorious criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.