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||1879: Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole. | ||1879: Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole. | ||
||1888: John Ray Sinnock | ||1888: John Ray Sinnock born ... the eighth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1925 to 1947. Roosevelt dime sculptor. Pic. | ||
||1889: The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published. | ||1889: The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published. | ||
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1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.
1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop publishes an analysis of Gnomon algorithm techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project.
1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
1767: Anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and crime-fighter Anna Morandi Manzolini publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent Organic golem generation.
1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
1948: Janet Beta at ENIAC "raises more questions that it answers," says director of Project Blue Book.
1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.