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||1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate. Pic. | ||1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate. Pic. | ||
||1808: Elijah Craig dies ... minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey. | ||1808: Elijah Craig dies ... minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1815: James Bicheno Francis born ... civil engineer, who invented the Francis turbine. Pic. | ||1815: James Bicheno Francis born ... civil engineer, who invented the Francis turbine. Pic. | ||
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File:Bertrand Russell transparent bg.png|link=Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist [[Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|Bertrand Russell]] born. | File:Bertrand Russell transparent bg.png|link=Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist [[Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|Bertrand Russell]] born. | ||
||1881: Erwin Madelung born ... physicist. He was born in 1881 in Bonn. His father was the surgeon Otto Wilhelm Madelung. He earned a doctorate in 1905 from the University of Göttingen, specializing in crystal structure, and eventually became a professor. It was during this time he developed the Madelung constant, which characterizes the net electrostatic effects of all ions in a crystal lattice, and is used to determine the energy of one ion. | ||1881: Erwin Madelung born ... physicist. He was born in 1881 in Bonn. His father was the surgeon Otto Wilhelm Madelung. He earned a doctorate in 1905 from the University of Göttingen, specializing in crystal structure, and eventually became a professor. It was during this time he developed the Madelung constant, which characterizes the net electrostatic effects of all ions in a crystal lattice, and is used to determine the energy of one ion. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=erwin+madelung | ||
||1889: Thomas Midgley, Jr. born ... chemist and mechanical engineer ... key figure in a team of chemists, led by Charles F. Kettering, that developed the tetraethyllead (TEL) additive to gasoline as well as some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). | ||1889: Thomas Midgley, Jr. born ... chemist and mechanical engineer ... key figure in a team of chemists, led by Charles F. Kettering, that developed the tetraethyllead (TEL) additive to gasoline as well as some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). | ||
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1048: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám born.
1661: Mathematician William Oughtred uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect crimes against mathematical constants.
1711: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
1822: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady born. He will be one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
1871: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses Niles Cartouchian of manufacturing illegal time crystals (nonfiction).
1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell born.
1902: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
2016: Cowries voted Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.