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||1901: Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue dies ... marine engineer and founder of a theory of magnetic deviation for magnetic compasses, living and working in Imperial Russia. Pic. | ||1901: Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue dies ... marine engineer and founder of a theory of magnetic deviation for magnetic compasses, living and working in Imperial Russia. Pic. | ||
||1902: Almon Brown Strowger dies ... inventor who gave his name to the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired. Pic. | |||
||1904: Georges Gilles de la Tourette dies ... physician and neurologist. | ||1904: Georges Gilles de la Tourette dies ... physician and neurologist. | ||
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1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.
1814: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler born. He will invent the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.
2016: New autobiography by Didacus automaton accuses Baron Zersetzung of crimes against mathematical constants.
1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born.
1936: Enrico Fermi publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.