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File:Francis Baily.jpg|link=Francis Baily (nonfiction)|1836: Astronomer [[Francis Baily (nonfiction)|Francis Baily]] observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse. | File:Francis Baily.jpg|link=Francis Baily (nonfiction)|1836: Astronomer [[Francis Baily (nonfiction)|Francis Baily]] observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse. | ||
||1845: Élie Metchnikoff born ... zoologist best known for his pioneering research in immunology. Metchnikoff is credited with the discovery of phagocytes (macrophages) in 1882. This discovery turned out to be the major defence mechanism in innate immunity. He and Paul Ehrlich were jointly awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity". Pic. | |||
||1857: Williamina Fleming born ... astronomer and academic. | ||1857: Williamina Fleming born ... astronomer and academic. |
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1579: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke invents new type of scrying engine which pre-visualizes tangents and secants. He will use the engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1618: Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1801: Mathematician Joseph Ludwig Raabe born. He will discover Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.
1836: Astronomer Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
1888: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
2017: Three Kings voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2019: New study says that Greedy coloring algorithms "have been systematically corrupted by a consortium of math criminals including Anarchimedes and Forbidden Ratio." (Source: APTO crime report.)