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||Louis François Clément Breguet (d. 27 October 1883), was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. | ||Louis François Clément Breguet (d. 27 October 1883), was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. | ||
||Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones KBE, FRS (b. 27 October 1894) was a British mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He may be regarded as the initiator of modern computational chemistry. | |||
||1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. | ||1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. | ||
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1675: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1678: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort born. He will write Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which will introduce the combinatorial study of derangements.
1853: Mark Twains interviews Wallace War-Heels. Twain will later call it "the interview of a lifetime."
1854: Physician Golding Bird dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers Mariner 9, which was switched off forty-five years ago.
