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||1898 – Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist and engineer (d. 1979) | ||1898 – Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist and engineer (d. 1979) | ||
||Ruth Moufang (b. January 10, 1905) was a German mathematician. | |||
||1907 – Gordon Kidd Teal, American engineer and inventor (d. 2003) | ||1907 – Gordon Kidd Teal, American engineer and inventor (d. 2003) | ||
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1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.
1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born.
1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1960: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, announces world tour.
2007: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on The Dark Side of the Moon.