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||1844: James Henry Greathead born ... civil engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railway. He is also the reason that the London Underground is colloquially named "the tube". Pic. | ||1844: James Henry Greathead born ... civil engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railway. He is also the reason that the London Underground is colloquially named "the tube". Pic. | ||
||1881: | Alexander Fleming (nonfiction)|link=Alexander Fleming (nonfiction)|1881: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist [[Alexander Fleming (nonfiction)|Alexander Fleming]] born. Fleming will discover Penicillin. | ||
||1890: At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair. | ||1890: At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair. | ||
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1638: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche born. He will be instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.
1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
- Alexander Fleming (nonfiction)
1881: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist Alexander Fleming born. Fleming will discover Penicillin.
1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.
1928: Cryptologist and APTO field engineer Herbert Yardley discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use cryptographic numina to detect and prevent crimes against computational constants.
1969: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight purchased by Andy Warhol for an undisclosed sum.
1991: Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2012: NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Spiral reveals "at least two, probably three, possibly four" previously unknown shades of green.