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||1314: Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. Pic. | ||1314: Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. Pic. | ||
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||1690: Christian Goldbach born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1690: Christian Goldbach born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1727: Ferdinand Berthoud born . | File:Ferdinand Berthoud.jpg|link=Ferdinand Berthoud (nonfiction)|1727: Scientist and watchmaker [[Ferdinand Berthoud (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Berthoud]] born. Berthoud will serve as Horologist-Mechanic by appointment to the King and the Navy, leaving an exceptionally broad body of work, notable for excellent sea chronometers. | ||
||1741: New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741. Pic. | ||1741: New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741. Pic. | ||
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||1796: Jakob Steiner born ... mathematician who worked primarily in geometry. Pic. | ||1796: Jakob Steiner born ... mathematician who worked primarily in geometry. Pic. | ||
||1839: Joseph-Émile Barbier born ... astronomer and mathematician, known for Barbier's theorem on the perimeter of curves of constant width. Pic search | ||1839: Joseph-Émile Barbier born ... astronomer and mathematician, known for Barbier's theorem on the perimeter of curves of constant width. Pic search. | ||
||1858: Rudolf Diesel born ... engineer, invented the Diesel engine. Pic. | ||1858: Rudolf Diesel born ... engineer, invented the Diesel engine. Pic. | ||
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1640: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect Philippe de La Hire born. La Hire will be the favorite pupil of Desargues, and develop conic sections and epicycloids based on the teaching of Desargues.
1727: Scientist and watchmaker Ferdinand Berthoud born. Berthoud will serve as Horologist-Mechanic by appointment to the King and the Navy, leaving an exceptionally broad body of work, notable for excellent sea chronometers.
1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use radium compounds to detect and counteract crimes against both physical constants and chemical constants.
1927: Physicist, mathematician, and activist William C. Davidon born. Davidon will develop the first quasi-Newton algorithm, now known as the Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula.
1927: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton born. Plimpton will be famous for "participatory journalism": competing in professional sporting events, playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, performing a circus trapeze act, and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.
1963: Mathematician Tan Lei born. Tan Lei will specialize in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers, making contributions to the study of the Mandelbrot set and Julia set.
1964: Mathematician and crime-fighter Gaston Maurice Julia discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which anticipate the later work of Tan Lei in using the Julia set to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Green Spiral 9 declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.