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File:Blodget's Hotel.jpg|link=1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|1836: A [[1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|fire at the U.S. Patent Office]] destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.
File:Blodget's Hotel.jpg|link=1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|1836: A [[1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|fire at the U.S. Patent Office]] destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.


||1838: Émile Léger dies ... mathematician ...  only published four papers on mathematics, but one of them seems to be the first to recognize the worst case in the euclidean algorithm: when the inputs are proportional to consecutive Fibonacci numbers.. No pic, but interesting life: he helped defend Paris during the Hundred Days of Napoleon in March 1815, and was decorated for bravery.  
||1838: Émile Léger dies ... mathematician ...  only published four papers on mathematics, but one of them seems to be the first to recognize the worst case in the euclidean algorithm: when the inputs are proportional to consecutive Fibonacci numbers. No pic online, but interesting life: he helped defend Paris during the Hundred Days of Napoleon in March 1815, and was decorated for bravery.  


||1852: Henri Becquerel born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1852: Henri Becquerel born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.

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  • 1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

    1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

  • 1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

    1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

  • 1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

    1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

  • 1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.

    1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.

  • 1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

    1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

  • 1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

    1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

  • 1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".

    1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".

  • 1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

    1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

  • 2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

    2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Pilgrim stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

    2017: Signed first edition of Pilgrim stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

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