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||1588: Mimar Sinan dies ... architect and engineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque and Süleymaniye Mosque. No DOB. Pic. | ||1588: Mimar Sinan dies ... architect and engineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque and Süleymaniye Mosque. No DOB. Pic. | ||
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||1894: Georges Lemaître born ... priest, astronomer, and cosmologist. Pic. | ||1894: Georges Lemaître born ... priest, astronomer, and cosmologist. Pic. | ||
||1910: Frank Olson born ... chemist and microbiologist. | ||1910: Frank Olson born ... chemist and microbiologist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=frank+olson | ||
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1911: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for his unpatriotic opinions. | File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1911: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for his unpatriotic opinions. | ||
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1845: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1911: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes criticized for his unpatriotic opinions.
1912: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré dies. He made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1913: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1920: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould born. He will invent and name the laser.
1929: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: The Port Chicago disaster: Munitions detonate while being loaded onto a cargo vessel bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations, killing 320 sailors and civilians and injuring 390 others at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States.
1944: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
2018: Angry Feller stolen from the Louvre in daytime raid by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.