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||1938: Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. | ||1938: Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. | ||
||1941: Walther Nernst dies ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1941: Walther Nernst dies ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | ||
||1945: Jacob David Tamarkin dies ... mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis. | ||1945: Jacob David Tamarkin dies ... mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis. |
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1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.
1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.
1865: Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in The Saturday Press.
1866: Physicist and crime-fighter Georg Hermann Quincke uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Cowries reveals "at least three hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.