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||1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer (b. 1754) | ||1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer (b. 1754) | ||
||Harold Pitney Brown (b. September 16, 1857) was an American electrical engineer and inventor known for his activism in the late 1880s against the use of alternating current for electric lighting in New York City and around the country (during the "War of Currents"). | |||
||1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400. | ||1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400. | ||
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1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
1964: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.
2006: Mathematician and crime-fighter Vladimir Arnold uses the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.