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1710: Mathematician and philosopher Thomas Reid born. Reid will argue that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry.
1797: Physicist Hans Christian Ørsted uses electromagnetism to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1798: Artist Eugène Delacroix born. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
1879: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville dies. He invented the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
1879: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson born. He will win the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
1945: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) accidentally released new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1986: A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine).
1987: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde denies accusations that he was responsible for the Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction).

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 ||Emil Hilb (b. 26 April 1882) was a German-Jewish mathematician who worked in the fields of special functions, differential equations, and difference equations. Pic.
+||Guillermo Haro Barraza (d. 26 April 1988) was a Mexican astronomer. Through his own astronomical research and the formation of new institutions, Haro was influential in the development of modern observational astronomy in Mexico. Internationally, he is best known for his contribution to the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic.
 ||1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1951) He worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.