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1791: Polymath Charles Babbage born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers.
1896: Physician and physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond dies. He discovered nerve action potential, and developed experimental electrophysiology.
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1899: Engineer and crime-fighter Gustave Eiffel uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
2006: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal dies. Kruskal made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Blue Foliage 2 unexpectedly reveals "at least five kilobytes" of encrypted data.
2019: Karl Jones takes a photograph of himself wearing red and green Christmas lights.

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 ||1999: Vitold Belevitch dies ... mathematician and electrical engineer of Russian origin who produced some important work in the field of electrical network theory. Pic.
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 ||2007: Wilfred Kaplan dies ... professor of mathematics. His research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations.  Pic.