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||2015: Pierre Gabriel dies ... mathematician and academic. He worked on category theory, algebraic groups, and representation theory of algebras. Pic: http://www.pierre-peter-gabriel-mathematics.ch/biography/ | ||2015: Pierre Gabriel dies ... mathematician and academic. He worked on category theory, algebraic groups, and representation theory of algebras. Pic: http://www.pierre-peter-gabriel-mathematics.ch/biography/ | ||
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1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.
1639: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Ismaël Bullialdus publishes Astronomia Gnomaica, his monumental study of crimes against astronomical constants.
1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1962: First broadcast of That Was the Week That Was.
1963: In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail.
2016: Three Kings voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.