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||1869 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930 | ||1869 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930 | ||
||Solomon Lefschetz (b. 3 September 1884) was an American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations. | |||
||1905 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) | ||1905 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) | ||
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1658: Oliver Cromwell dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1814: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1916: Archaeologist and crime-fighter Sylvanus Morley uses archaeological expedition to Mexico during World War I as cover story for secret investigation into alleged Maya-related crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.
2017: Signed first edition of Humpty Dumpty At Bat sells for two hundred thousand dollars.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 spacecraft landing at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
