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||1896: Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people. | ||1896: Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people. | ||
||1901: Vincent du Vigneaud born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1901: Vincent du Vigneaud born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1902: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference. | File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1902: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference. | ||
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||1922: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran dies ... physician and parasitologist ... won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as profession. Pic. | ||1922: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran dies ... physician and parasitologist ... won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as profession. Pic. | ||
||1924: Corrado Segre dies ... mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to the early development of algebraic geometry. | ||1924: Corrado Segre dies ... mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to the early development of algebraic geometry. Pic. | ||
||1926: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California. | ||1926: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California. | ||
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1048: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám born.
1661: Mathematician William Oughtred uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect crimes against mathematical constants.
1711: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
1822: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady born. He will be one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
1871: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses Niles Cartouchian of manufacturing illegal time crystals (nonfiction).
1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell born.
1902: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
2016: Cowries voted Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.