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File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.


||Vyacheslav Vassilievich Stepanov (b. 4 September 1889) was a Russian mathematician, specializing in analysis.
||1889: Vyacheslav Vassilievich Stepanov born ... mathematician, specializing in analysis.


||Moses Ilyich Schönfinkel (b. 4 September 1889), was a Russian logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic. Pic.
||1889: Moses Ilyich Schönfinkel born ... logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic. Pic.


File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1889: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] calls [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]]'s roll-film camera "a major advance in photography."
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1889: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] calls [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]]'s roll-film camera "a major advance in photography."


||1891 – Fritz Todt, German engineer and politician (d. 1942)
||1890: Johannes Gaultherus van der Corput born ... mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He introduced the Van der Corput lemma, a technique for creating an upper bound on the measure of a set drawn from harmonic analysis, and the Van der Corput theorem on equidistribution modulo 1. Pic: https://www.ranker.com/review/johannes-van-der-corput/1298721


||1896 – Antonin Artaud, French actor, director, and playwright (d. 1948)
||1891: Fritz Todt born ... engineer and politician.


||1905 – Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox (d. 2003)
||1896: Antonin Artaud born ... actor, director, and playwright.


||Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (b. September 4, 1906), a German–American biophysicist, helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Pic.
||1905: Walter Zapp born ... inventor, invented the Minox (d. 2003)


||Konstantin Petrzhak (b. Sept. 4 1907–1998) was a Soviet–Russian nuclear physicist and university professor of Polish origin. He discovered spontaneous fission of uranium with Georgy Flyorov in 1940; in addition, he also aided in Soviet Union's atomic bomb project .
||1906: Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück born ... biophysicist, helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Pic.


||José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (d. 4 September 1916) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. He was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama".
||1907: Konstantin Petrzhak born ... nuclear physicist and university professor of Polish origin. He discovered spontaneous fission of uranium with Georgy Flyorov in 1940; in addition, he also aided in Soviet Union's atomic bomb project .
 
||1916: José Echegaray y Eizaguirre dies ... civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. He was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama".


||1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
||1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

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  • 1784: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.

    1784: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.

  • 1881: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes arrives at New Minneapolis, where he will write his well-known essay, A Noble Experiment.

    1881: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes arrives at New Minneapolis, where he will write his well-known essay, A Noble Experiment.

  • 1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

    1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

  • 1883: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1883: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

    1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

  • 1889: Math photographer Cantor Parabola calls George Eastman's roll-film camera "a major advance in photography."

    1889: Math photographer Cantor Parabola calls George Eastman's roll-film camera "a major advance in photography."

  • 1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

    1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter sells for ten million dollars.

    2017: Signed first edition of Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter sells for ten million dollars.

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