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File:Judge Havelock With Glass.jpg|link=Judge Havelock With Glass|1845: ''[[Judge Havelock With Glass]]'' is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," according to [[Judge Havelock|the Judge]].
File:Judge Havelock With Glass.jpg|link=Judge Havelock With Glass|1845: ''[[Judge Havelock With Glass]]'' is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," according to [[Judge Havelock|the Judge]].
||1851: First successful submarine cable laid: The cable was laid between South Foreland and Sangatte by ''Blazer'' under tow from two tugs. The cable ran out a mile before reaching Sangette. As a temporary measure, a length of unarmoured cable used for the underground link from Sangette to Calais was spliced on to enable the ocean cable to be landed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_Telegraph_Company Pic.


||1852: Christoph Gudermann dies ... mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence.
||1852: Christoph Gudermann dies ... mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence.

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  • 1644: Astronomer and instrument maker Ole Rømer born. He will make the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

    1644: Astronomer and instrument maker Ole Rømer born. He will make the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

  • 1777: Polymath Johann Heinrich Lambert dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy, and map projections.

    1777: Polymath Johann Heinrich Lambert dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy, and map projections.

  • 1789: The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.

    1789: The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.

  • 1819: Mathematician and Anglican theologian George Salmon born. He will work in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devote the last forty years of his life to theology.

    1819: Mathematician and Anglican theologian George Salmon born. He will work in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devote the last forty years of his life to theology.

  • 1845: Judge Havelock With Glass is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," according to the Judge.

    1845: Judge Havelock With Glass is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," according to the Judge.

  • 1893: Mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér born. He will help found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."

    1893: Mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér born. He will help found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."

  • 1992: NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. The probe will fail eleven months later.

    1992: NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. The probe will fail eleven months later.

  • 2002: Steganographic analysis of Humpty Dumpty At Bat reveals previously unknown biography of Babe Ruth by Lewis Carroll.

    2002: Steganographic analysis of Humpty Dumpty At Bat reveals previously unknown biography of Babe Ruth by Lewis Carroll.

  • 2003: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton dies.

    2003: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton dies.

  • 2018: Chromatographic analysis of Yellow Spiral unexpectedly reveals "at least five new shades of the color yellow, perhaps as many as nine."

    2018: Chromatographic analysis of Yellow Spiral unexpectedly reveals "at least five new shades of the color yellow, perhaps as many as nine."

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars says that the twenty-fifth anniversary of the launch of the Mars Observer is a bittersweet event, because the spacecraft will be lost eleven months later.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars says that the twenty-fifth anniversary of the launch of the Mars Observer is a bittersweet event, because the spacecraft will be lost eleven months later.

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