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||1898: Katharine Burr Blodgett born ... physicist and engineer. | ||1898: Katharine Burr Blodgett born ... physicist and engineer. | ||
||1899: Szolem Mandelbrojt born ... mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis. Pic. | |||
||1905: Ruth Moufang born ... mathematician. | ||1905: Ruth Moufang born ... mathematician. | ||
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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.