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||120: Vettius Valens born ... astrologer. | ||120: Vettius Valens born ... astrologer. No DOD. Search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=vettius+valens | ||
||1588: Ole Worm born ... physician and historian. | ||1588: Ole Worm born ... physician and historian. Pic. | ||
File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687. | File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687. | ||
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||1888: With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery. | ||1888: With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery. | ||
||1890: Jacques-Louis Soret dies ... chemist who in 1878, along with Marc Delafontaine, first observed holmium spectroscopically. Soret was also responsible for correctly working out the chemical composition of ozone as being three oxygen atoms bound together. | ||1890: Jacques-Louis Soret dies ... chemist who in 1878, along with Marc Delafontaine, first observed holmium spectroscopically. Soret was also responsible for correctly working out the chemical composition of ozone as being three oxygen atoms bound together. Pic. | ||
||1902: Hugh Rose Foss born ... cryptanalyst. At Bletchley Park during World War II he made significant contributions both to the breaking of the German Enigma code and headed the section tasked with breaking Japanese Naval codes. | ||1902: Hugh Rose Foss born ... cryptanalyst. At Bletchley Park during World War II he made significant contributions both to the breaking of the German Enigma code and headed the section tasked with breaking Japanese Naval codes. | ||
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1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1733: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus invents a binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy to define and characterize a wide range of crimes against mathematical constants.
1762: First use of Japanese rod calculus to confirm the APTO Accords.
1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or yesterday.
1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1929: Electrical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius dies. He invented and patented the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine.
1936: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."
1937: Writer Roger Zelazny born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1939: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician Stanisław Leśniewski dies. He posited three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.
2018: Green City Skyline voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.