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||1826: Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. Pic. | ||1826: Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. Pic. | ||
||1837: Sophus Mads Jørgensen born ... chemist. He is considered one of the founders of coordination chemistry. Pic. | ||1837: Sophus Mads Jørgensen born ... chemist. He is considered one of the founders of coordination chemistry. Pic. | ||
||1855: The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, ''Leaves of Grass'', is published In Brooklyn. | ||1855: The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, ''Leaves of Grass'', is published In Brooklyn. | ||
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1816: Inventor and APTO field engineer Nicéphore Niépce uses the heliograph to reveal the Forbidden ratio, a pioneering step towards modern methods for detecting and preventing crimes against light.
1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
1934: Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.
1935: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1982: Computer scientist and crime-fighter Joseph Weizenbaum publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series publishes complete plans for nuclear-powered fireworks display.
2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2016: Fireworks in the shape of Crimson Blossom make their debut at the annual Accession Day fireworks display in New Minneapolis, Canada.