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File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1704: John Locke dies ... physician and philosopher. | ||1704: John Locke dies ... physician and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1718: Ignacije Szentmartony born ... priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer. | ||1718: Ignacije Szentmartony born ... priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer. | ||
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||1948: Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. | ||1948: Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. | ||
||1958: Stephen Butterworth dies ... physicist and engineer ... invented the filter that bears his name, a class of electrical circuits that separates electrical signals of different frequencies.No pics online: https://www.google.com/search?q=stephen+butterworth+physicist | |||
||1962: End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. | ||1962: End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. | ||
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1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.
1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
Illustration of Cantor Parabola contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.