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||1761: Thomas Simpson dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: book cover. | ||1761: Thomas Simpson dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: book cover. | ||
||1796: Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation. | ||1796: Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation. Pic. | ||
||1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River. | ||1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River. | ||
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||1814: Charles Beyer born ... engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock and Company | ||1814: Charles Beyer born ... engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock and Company | ||
||1832: Rudolf Lipschitz born ... mathematician and academic | ||1832: Rudolf Lipschitz born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1852: Henri Julien born ... illustrator | ||1852: Henri Julien born ... illustrator | ||
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1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.
1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
2018: Signed first edition of Butterfly unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during an otherwise routine high-energy literature experiment.