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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.
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.
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.

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 ||1753: Lazare Carnot born ... general, mathematician, and politician, French Minister of the Interior. Pic.
-File:Japanese counting board.jpg|link=Rod calculus (nonfiction)|1762: First use of Japanese [[Rod calculus (nonfiction)|rod calculus]] to confirm the [[APTO]] Accords.
 ||1795: Gérard Paul Deshayes born ... geologist and chronologist. Pic search book cover: https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12459618/gerard-paul_deshayes/
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 ||1935: David Todd Wilkinson born ... pioneer in the field of cosmology, specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) left over from the Big Bang. Pic.
-File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1936: ''The Safe-Cracker'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."
 File:Roger Zelazny 1988.jpg|link=Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|1937: Writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]] born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.