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File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1862: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, born. | File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1862: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, born. | ||
||1862: Hawley Harvey Crippen born ... physician and murderer ... telegraph. Pic. | |||
||1877: James Jeans born ... physicist, astronomer, and mathematician. Pic. | ||1877: James Jeans born ... physicist, astronomer, and mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1917: Kenkichi Iwasawa born ... mathematician who is known for his influence on algebraic number theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=kenkichi+iwasawa | ||1917: Kenkichi Iwasawa born ... mathematician who is known for his influence on algebraic number theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=kenkichi+iwasawa | ||
||1926: Heini Halberstam born ... mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture is named. | ||1926: Heini Halberstam born ... mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture is named. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=heini+halberstam | ||
||1936: Herman Haga dies ... physicist. Pic. | ||1936: Herman Haga dies ... physicist. Pic. | ||
||1940: George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer. | ||1940: George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer. Pic. | ||
||1943: Mathematician Oswald Teichmüller dies. Pic. | ||1943: Mathematician Oswald Teichmüller dies. Pic. | ||
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1470: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".
1581: Philosopher and alleged time-traveller Michel de Montaigne, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre, publishes new theory predicting the existence of high-energy literature.
1798: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann born. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds will include what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.
1831: Mathematician Carl Jacobi appointed professor. After a four hour disputation in Latin, Jacobi was appointed professor at the University of Konigsberg. While there he inaugurated what was then a complete novelty in mathematics: research seminars for the more advanced students and interested colleagues.
1843: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
1859: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid uses principles of hypnotherapy to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1862: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, born.
1973: Talk show host Peter Giblets exchanges record number of witticisms-per-minute with talk show host Dick Cavett on the highest-ever rated episode of the Peter Giblets Hour.
1997: NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
2013: Mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec dies. He developed the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.
2018: Signed first edition of Do Not Tease Monster stolen from the private collection of celebrity Peter Giblets by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang, held for ransom.