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||1584: Grégoire de Saint-Vincent born ... Jesuit and mathematician. He is remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola. Grégoire gave the "clearest early account of the summation of geometric series." He also resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum. Pic. Challenge AMA says born Sept. 9. Pic. | ||1584: Grégoire de Saint-Vincent born ... Jesuit and mathematician. He is remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola. Grégoire gave the "clearest early account of the summation of geometric series." He also resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum. Pic. Challenge AMA says born Sept. 9. Pic. | ||
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||1883: The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries. | ||1883: The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries. | ||
||1888: In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral's submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made. | ||1888: In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral's submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made. Pic. | ||
||1894: Hermann von Helmholtz dies ... physician and physicist. Pic. | ||1894: Hermann von Helmholtz dies ... physician and physicist. Pic. | ||
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||1915: Yehoshua Bar-Hillel born ... philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics. Pic. | ||1915: Yehoshua Bar-Hillel born ... philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics. Pic. | ||
||1918: Derek Barton, born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1918: Derek Barton, born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=derek+barton | ||
||1923: Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. | ||1923: Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. | ||
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||1930: 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape. | ||1930: 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape. | ||
||1935: Carl Weiss dies ... physician ... Assassin of Huey Long | ||1935: Carl Weiss dies ... physician ... Assassin of Huey Long. | ||
||1938: Derrick Norman Lehmer dies ... mathematician and number theorist. Pic. | ||1938: Derrick Norman Lehmer dies ... mathematician and number theorist. Pic. | ||
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||2009: Aage Bohr dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||2009: Aage Bohr dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2010: George | ||2010: George C. Williams dies ... evolutionary biologist. Pic. | ||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2013: [[Rhizolith Group]] performs new work in remembrance of mathematician [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]]. | File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2013: [[Rhizolith Group]] performs new work in remembrance of mathematician [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]]. | ||
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1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1635: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Adriaan Metius manufactures precision optical instruments for detecting and preventing crimes against astronomical constants.
1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd dies.
1959: While vacationing in New Minneapolis, Canada, theoretical physicist Edward Teller visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse, where he engages the owners in a spirited debate on the merits of thermonuclear war.
1973: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for his next film by selling shares in the pardoning of Richard Nixon.
1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon."
2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
2013: Rhizolith Group performs new work in remembrance of mathematician Robert Fludd.
2016: Signed first edition of Mad King used in high-energy literature experiments unexpectedly generates a clone of artist Karl Jones.