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1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1854: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis uses Gnomon algorithm functions to prevent outbreak of Kingpin inclination.
1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.
2019: Triumph voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||1865: The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
-||1867: Gerrit Mannoury born ... philosopher and mathematician, professor at the University of Amsterdam and communist, known as the central figure in the signific circle, a Dutch counterpart of the Vienna circle.
+||1867: Gerrit Mannoury born ... philosopher and mathematician, professor at the University of Amsterdam and communist, known as the central figure in the signific circle, a Dutch counterpart of the Vienna circle. Pic.
 ||1872: Ludwik Silberstein born ... physicist who helped make special relativity and general relativity staples of university coursework. His textbook The Theory of Relativity was published by Macmillan in 1914 with a second edition, expanded to include general relativity, in 1924. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=ludwik+silberstein