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||2007: Henry L. Giclas dies ... astronomer and academic.
||2007: Henry L. Giclas dies ... astronomer and academic.
File:Pink City.jpg|link=Pink City (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Pink City (nonfiction)|Pink City]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


||2016: Gallieno Ferri dies ... comic book artist and illustrator.
||2016: Gallieno Ferri dies ... comic book artist and illustrator.

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  • 1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.

    1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.

  • 1615: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei teams up with orbital artificial intelligence AESOP to stop crimes against the ionosphere.

    1615: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei teams up with orbital artificial intelligence AESOP to stop crimes against the ionosphere.

  • 1618: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi born. Working with Riccioli, he will investigate the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.

    1618: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi born. Working with Riccioli, he will investigate the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.

  • 1872: Painter and inventor Samuel Morse dies. He co-invented the Morse code.

    1872: Painter and inventor Samuel Morse dies. He co-invented the Morse code.

  • 1898: Mathematician Chiungtze C. Tsen born. He will prove Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1).

    1898: Mathematician Chiungtze C. Tsen born. He will prove Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1).

  • 1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.

    1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.

  • 1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."

    1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."

  • 1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. He will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

    1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. He will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

  • 2016: Pink City voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2016: Pink City voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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