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||1860: Margaret Eliza Maltby born ... physicist notable for measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions. Pic. | ||1860: Margaret Eliza Maltby born ... physicist notable for measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions. Pic. | ||
||1864: Henry Schoolcraft dies ... geographer, geologist, and ethnologist ... Native Americans. Pic. | |||
||1868: The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. | ||1868: The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. | ||
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||1968: Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo. | ||1968: Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo. | ||
||1973: Wolf V. Vishniac dies ... microbiologist and academic. | ||1973: Wolf V. Vishniac dies ... microbiologist and academic. Mars. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Wolf+V.+Vishniac | ||
||1979: Robert Elderfield dies ... chemist. He established the fundamental relationship between the cardiac aglycones and the sterols and bile acids, developed improved techniques for synthesizing primaquine and other antimalarials, and researched new anticancer agents. Pic. | ||1979: Robert Elderfield dies ... chemist. He established the fundamental relationship between the cardiac aglycones and the sterols and bile acids, developed improved techniques for synthesizing primaquine and other antimalarials, and researched new anticancer agents. Pic. | ||
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1262: First known use of Yui's triangle to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1198: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler born.
1684: Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
1804: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
1815: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace born. She will do pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1831: Physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.
1959: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, demonstrates new controller units.
1967: Project Gasbuggy underground nuclear test detonation in rural northern New Mexico. Its purpose was to determine if nuclear explosions could be useful in fracturing rock formations for natural gas extraction.
1989: Animated Lorenz system diagram celebrates the life and work of Ada Lovelace.
2014: The Eel receives news from informants.
2017: Signed first edition of Shell stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.