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1725: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1940: Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
2017: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins Pulitzer Prize.
2018: Green Sprouts voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||1877: Mathematician George Hamel born ... "He is perhaps best known for the Hamel basis ... for the real numbers as a vector space over the rational numbers." Data and pic: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Hamel.html
-||1894: Dorothy Maud Wrinch born ... mathematician, biochemist and philosopher.
+||1894: Dorothy Maud Wrinch born ... mathematician, biochemist, and philosopher ... best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion of the controversial 'cyclol' hypothesis for the structure of proteins. Pic.
 ||1894: Frans Michel Penning born ... experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic.