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||1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
||1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
||1921 born: Dmitry Yevgenyevich Okhotsimsky was a Soviet Russian aerospace engineer and scientist who was the pioneer of space ballistics in the USSR. He wrote fundamental works in applied celestial mechanics, spaceflight dynamics and robotics. Pic.


||1931 – Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
||1931 – Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)

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  • 1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.

    1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.

  • 1648: Niels Steensen analyzes fossil trilobite using Gnomon algorithm techniques, finds evidence of crimes against geological constants.

    1648: Niels Steensen analyzes fossil trilobite using Gnomon algorithm techniques, finds evidence of crimes against geological constants.

  • 1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.

    1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.

  • 1904: Physicist and crime-fighter John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

    1904: Physicist and crime-fighter John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

  • 2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

    2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from Game of Chance unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data."

    2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from Game of Chance unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data."

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