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||1722: Petrus Camper born ... physician, anatomist, and physiologist. Pic. | ||1722: Petrus Camper born ... physician, anatomist, and physiologist. Pic. | ||
||1752: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach born ... physician, physiologist, and anthropologist. | ||1752: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach born ... physician, physiologist, and anthropologist. Pic. | ||
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||1972: The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle. | ||1972: The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle. | ||
||1981: Odd Hassel dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1981: Odd Hassel dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1985: Chester Gould dies ... cartoonist, created Dick Tracy. | ||1985: Chester Gould dies ... cartoonist, created Dick Tracy. | ||
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868: A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
1610: Priest and mathematician Matteo Ricci dies. He translating Euclid's Elements into Chinese as well as the Confucian classics into Latin for the first time.
1845: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Jacques Philippe Marie Binet publishes new theory of crimes against mathematical constants using fundamental principles of matrix algebra.
1858: Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
1903: Public outrage in response to the short film Electrocuting an Elephant triggers a worldwide outbreak of Scrimshaw abuse.
1918: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman born. He will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
2018: Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Spiral Rings 2 reveals "eight hundred kilobytes, give or take" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.