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||1868: Linus Yale, Jr. dies ... engineer and businessman.
||1868: Linus Yale, Jr. dies ... engineer and businessman.


||1876: Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1876: Adolf Windaus born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1879: Ignaz "Igo" Etrich born ... flight pioneer, pilot and fixed-wing aircraft developer. Pic: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igo_Etrich
||1879: Ignaz "Igo" Etrich born ... flight pioneer, pilot and fixed-wing aircraft developer. Pic: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igo_Etrich

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  • 1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

    1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

  • 1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

    1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

  • 1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. He will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.

    1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. He will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.

  • 1881: Physician, physiologist, and APTO field engineer Emil du Bois-Reymond uses experimental electrophysiology techniques to demonstrate a physiological basis for the energy exerted by Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1881: Physician, physiologist, and APTO field engineer Emil du Bois-Reymond uses experimental electrophysiology techniques to demonstrate a physiological basis for the energy exerted by Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.

    1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.

  • 2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

    2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

  • 2017: Swirl is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2017: Swirl is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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