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||1826: Christian Kramp dies ... mathematician and academic ... worked primarily with factorials. Pic: book cover. | ||1826: Christian Kramp dies ... mathematician and academic ... worked primarily with factorials. Pic: book cover. | ||
||1849: Lou Blonger born ... Wild West saloonkeeper, gambling-house owner, and mine speculator, but is best known as the kingpin of an extensive ring of confidence tricksters that operated for more than 25 years in Denver, Colorado. His "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" was brought to justice in a famous trial in 1923. Pic. | |||
||1857: Ronald Ross born ... physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1857: Ronald Ross born ... physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||1958: Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey. Pic. | ||1958: Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey. Pic. | ||
|| | File:Marguerite Perey.jpg|link=Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist and chemist [[Marguerite Perey (nonfiction)|Marguerite Perey]] dies. Perey discovered the element francium while purifying samples of lanthanum. | ||
||1985: Revaz Dogonadze dies ... chemist and physicist. He was the first to view a chemical electron-transfer process as a quantum-mechanical transition between two separate electronic states, induced by weak electrostatic interactions between the molecular entities represented by the states. Pic search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revaz_Dogonadze | ||1985: Revaz Dogonadze dies ... chemist and physicist. He was the first to view a chemical electron-transfer process as a quantum-mechanical transition between two separate electronic states, induced by weak electrostatic interactions between the molecular entities represented by the states. Pic search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revaz_Dogonadze | ||
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1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1733: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus invents a binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy to define and characterize a wide range of crimes against mathematical constants.
1762: First use of Japanese rod calculus to confirm the APTO Accords.
1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or yesterday.
1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1929: Electrical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius dies. He invented and patented the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine.
1936: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."
1937: Writer Roger Zelazny born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1939: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician Stanisław Leśniewski dies. He posited three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.
1974: Physicist and chemist Marguerite Perey dies. Perey discovered the element francium while purifying samples of lanthanum.
2018: Green City Skyline voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.