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||1742: Luigi Guido Grandi dies ... monk, mathematician, and engineer. Pic. | ||1742: Luigi Guido Grandi dies ... monk, mathematician, and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1753: Jean-Pierre Blanchard born ... inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight. Pic. | |||
||1776: American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress. | ||1776: American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress. | ||
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||1817: In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins. | ||1817: In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins. | ||
||1826: Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. | ||1826: Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. Pic. | ||
||1837: Sophus Mads Jørgensen born ... chemist. He is considered one of the founders of coordination chemistry. Pic. | ||1837: Sophus Mads Jørgensen born ... chemist. He is considered one of the founders of coordination chemistry. Pic. | ||
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1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
1902: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate new data transmission protocol which functions as a psychological time machine.
1934: Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.
1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1982: Computer scientist and crime-fighter Joseph Weizenbaum publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.
1998: Signed first edition of Leonardo Draws Clock Head sells for one and a half million dollars.
2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2017: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Fireworks in the shape of Crimson Blossom make their debut at the annual Accession Day fireworks display in New Minneapolis, Canada.