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||1884: The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park. | ||1884: The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park. | ||
||1878: Crawford Long dies ... surgeon and pharmacist ... sulfur ether anaesthetic. | ||1878: Crawford Long dies ... surgeon and pharmacist ... sulfur ether anaesthetic. Pic. | ||
||1884: Ernst Jakob Lennart von Post born ... naturalist and geologist. He was the first to publish quantitative analysis of pollen and is counted as one of the founders of palynology. Pic. | ||1884: Ernst Jakob Lennart von Post born ... naturalist and geologist. He was the first to publish quantitative analysis of pollen and is counted as one of the founders of palynology. Pic. | ||
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1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict and prevent Crimes against mathematical constants.
1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.
1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.
1971: Talk show host Peter Giblets is arrested for smoking cannabis while filming an episode of The Peter Giblets Hour before a live studio audience.
2017: The monster depicted in Do Not Tease Monster is voted Monster of the Year in a survey of 3200 monsters.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Electrical Storm unexpectedly reveals "five hundred to seven hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.