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||1896: James Henry Greathead dies ... civil engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railway. He is also the reason that the London Underground is colloquially named "the tube". Pic. | ||1896: James Henry Greathead dies ... civil engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railway. He is also the reason that the London Underground is colloquially named "the tube". Pic. | ||
||1903: Llewellyn | ||1903: Llewellyn Thomas born ... physicist and applied mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to atomic physics and solid-state physics. Pic. | ||
||1911: Mary Blair born ... illustrator and animator. | ||1911: Mary Blair born ... illustrator and animator. | ||
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1687: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaus I Bernoulli born. He will introduce a successful resolution to the St. Petersburg paradox.
1768: Astronomer and adventurer Guillaume Le Gentil publicly accuses the House of Malevecchio of crimes against astronomical constants. The Malvecchians will back down from the encounter, but later secretly punish Le Gentil by creating overcast conditions on June 4, 1769.
1914: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner born. His interests will include stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.
1958: National Pareidolia Day declared in the United States.
1969: Mathematician and academic Wacław Sierpiński dies. He made important contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and topology.
2017: Green Spiral 9 feels more green than ever, according to new chromatographic survey.