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||1894 – Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist and academic (d. 1970) | ||1894 – Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist and academic (d. 1970) | ||
||Giuseppe Battaglini (d. 29 April 1894) was an Italian mathematician. | |||
||1915 – Henry H. Barschall, German-American physicist and academic (d. 1997) | ||1915 – Henry H. Barschall, German-American physicist and academic (d. 1997) | ||
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1667: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot born. He will invent the figure of John Bull.
1756: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse constructs an exceptionally accurate orrery, which he will later use to create an early form of time crystals (nonfiction).
1854: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré born. He will make many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1985: Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem, predicts imminent wave of crimes against mathematical constants.
1986: Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.