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||1865: Friedrich Karl Johannes Thiele born ... chemist and a prominent professor at several universities, including those in Munich and Strasbourg. He developed many laboratory techniques related to isolation of organic compounds. In 1907 he described a device for the accurate determination of melting points, since named Thiele tube after him. Pic. | ||1865: Friedrich Karl Johannes Thiele born ... chemist and a prominent professor at several universities, including those in Munich and Strasbourg. He developed many laboratory techniques related to isolation of organic compounds. In 1907 he described a device for the accurate determination of melting points, since named Thiele tube after him. Pic. | ||
||1878: Joseph Henry dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1878: Joseph Henry dies ... physicist and academic. | |||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] performs the first test of his electric railway. | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] performs the first test of his electric railway. | ||
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1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1733: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus invents a binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy to define and characterize a wide range of crimes against mathematical constants.
1762: First use of Japanese rod calculus to confirm the APTO Accords.
1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or yesterday.
1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1929: Electrical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius dies. He invented and patented the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine.
1936: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."
1937: Writer Roger Zelazny born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1939: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician Stanisław Leśniewski dies. He posited three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.
2018: Green City Skyline voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.