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||2012: Eugene Polley dies ... engineer, invented the remote control. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=eugene+polley | ||2012: Eugene Polley dies ... engineer, invented the remote control. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=eugene+polley | ||
File:Pyramid of the Sun.jpg||2015: ''[[Pyramid of the Sun (nonfiction)|Pyramid of the Sun]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | |||
||2016: John David Jackson dies ... physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A theoretical physicist, he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is well known for numerous publications and summer-school lectures in nuclear and particle physics, as well as his widely-used graduate text on classical electrodynamics. The book is notorious for the difficulty of its problems, and its tendency to treat non-obvious conclusions as self-evident. Pic. | ||2016: John David Jackson dies ... physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A theoretical physicist, he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is well known for numerous publications and summer-school lectures in nuclear and particle physics, as well as his widely-used graduate text on classical electrodynamics. The book is notorious for the difficulty of its problems, and its tendency to treat non-obvious conclusions as self-evident. Pic. | ||
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1806: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill born. He will be one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.
1887: Famed gem detective and crystallographer Niles Cartouchian uses Schumann resonances to communicate with fellow crime-fighter Nikola Tesla.
1888: Physicist Winfried Otto Schumann born. He will predict the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.
1889: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla radio technology to intercept communications between math criminals, providing information which will lead to the capture of Baron Zersetzung.
1891: History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1932: Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
1946: Logician, mathematician, and crime-fighter Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo uses the well-ordering theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2015: Pyramid of the Sun voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
