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File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|1935: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]]. | File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|1935: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]]. | ||
||Stanisław Ruziewicz (d. 12 July 1941) was a Polish mathematician and one of the founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics. The Ruziewicz problem, asking whether the Lebesgue measure on the sphere may be characterized by certain of its properties, is named after Ruziewicz. Pic. | |||
||1945 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871) | ||1945 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871) | ||
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1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1922: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
1967: Mathematician Edward Lorenz uses Gnomon algorithm to reveal previously secret crimes against mathematical constants.
