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File:William Blake by John Flaxman c1804.jpg|link=William Blake (nonfiction)|1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker [[William Blake (nonfiction)|William Blake]] born. | File:William Blake by John Flaxman c1804.jpg|link=William Blake (nonfiction)|1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker [[William Blake (nonfiction)|William Blake]] born. | ||
File:Japanese counting board.jpg|link=Rod calculus (nonfiction)|1760: First known use of Japanese [[Rod calculus (nonfiction)|rod calculus]] to compute [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | |||
||1772: Luke Howard born ... chemist and meteorologist. | ||1772: Luke Howard born ... chemist and meteorologist. | ||
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1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born.
1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to compute Gnomon algorithm functions.
1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1966: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky dies. He worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.