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||1821: Ernest Mouchez born ... French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887. Pic.
||1821: Ernest Mouchez born ... French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887. Pic.
||1824: Antonio Stoppani born ... geologist and scholar.


||1832: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
||1832: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
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||1967: Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
||1967: Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.


||1967: Henry John Kaiser dies ... industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding.
||1967: Henry John Kaiser dies ... industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. Pic.


||1968:  Opération Canopus: France's first two-stage thermonuclear test, conducted at Fangataufa atoll. The test made France the fifth country to test a thermonuclear device after the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and China.
||1968:  Opération Canopus: France's first two-stage thermonuclear test, conducted at Fangataufa atoll. The test made France the fifth country to test a thermonuclear device after the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and China.

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  • 1654: Blaise Pascal writes to Pierre de Fermat, describing his solution to the Problem of the Points (a probability problem) and asking Fermat to critique it.

    1654: Blaise Pascal writes to Pierre de Fermat, describing his solution to the Problem of the Points (a probability problem) and asking Fermat to critique it.

  • 1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.

    1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.

  • 1877: Canada grants Alexander Graham Bell a patent for the telephone.

    1877: Canada grants Alexander Graham Bell a patent for the telephone.

  • 1888: Rudolf Clausius dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.

    1888: Rudolf Clausius dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.

  • 1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

    1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

  • 1896: Author and crime-fighter Mark Twain publishes new collection of short stories based on Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1896: Author and crime-fighter Mark Twain publishes new collection of short stories based on Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges born. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.

    1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges born. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.

  • 1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

    1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

  • 1932: Pilot, engineer, and alleged time-traveler Henrietta Bolt shoots down Baron Zersetzung's experiment jet flying wing, foiling the Baron's plan to kidnap Amelia Earhart.

    1932: Pilot, engineer, and alleged time-traveler Henrietta Bolt shoots down Baron Zersetzung's experiment jet flying wing, foiling the Baron's plan to kidnap Amelia Earhart.

  • 1932: Amelia Earhart completes her non-stop flight across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours. She was the first woman to fly nonstop across the US. Earlier in the same year, on 20 May 1932, she accomplished the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic Ocean.

    1932: Amelia Earhart completes her non-stop flight across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours. She was the first woman to fly nonstop across the US. Earlier in the same year, on 20 May 1932, she accomplished the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • 1992: Signed first edition of Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden sells for an undisclosed amount to "a prominent Gnomon algorithm living in New Minneapolis, Canada."

    1992: Signed first edition of Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden sells for an undisclosed amount to "a prominent Gnomon algorithm living in New Minneapolis, Canada."

  • 2017: Three Kings 2 voted Picture of the Day by the Citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2017: Three Kings 2 voted Picture of the Day by the Citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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