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||1863: The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men women and children.
||1863: The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men women and children.
||1864: Claude "Claudius" Crozet dies ... soldier, educator, and civil engineer.  He worked as a professor of engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York; during this time he will (by some accounts) be the first to use the chalkboard as an instructional tool. Pic.


||1881: Alice Catherine Evans born ... microbiologist.
||1881: Alice Catherine Evans born ... microbiologist.

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  • 1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg born.

    1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg born.

  • 1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear dies.

    1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear dies.

  • 1916: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.

    1916: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.

  • 1926: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam born. He will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

    1926: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam born. He will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

  • 1933: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally born. He will be known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

    1933: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally born. He will be known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

  • 1934: Chemist Fritz Haber dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.

    1934: Chemist Fritz Haber dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.

  • 1940: Alice Beta predicts that mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec will make "incalculable contributions to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants."

    1940: Alice Beta predicts that mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec will make "incalculable contributions to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants."

  • 1941: Mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec born. He will develop the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.

    1941: Mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec born. He will develop the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.

  • 1970: Mathematician and crime-fighter Samuel Eilenberg applies the telescoping cancellation idea to projective Gnomon algorithm modules, revealing new techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1970: Mathematician and crime-fighter Samuel Eilenberg applies the telescoping cancellation idea to projective Gnomon algorithm modules, revealing new techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

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