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||1895: Igor Tamm born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1895: Igor Tamm born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1897: Epidemiologist and statistician Austin Bradford Hill born. Hill pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, demonstrated the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Hill is widely known for pioneering the "Bradford Hill" criteria for determining a causal association. Pic.


||1898: "Soapy" Smith dies in shootout ... con artist and gangster in the Old West. His most famous scam, the prize package soap sell racket, earned him the sobriquet of "Soapy", which remained with him to his death. Although he traveled and operated his confidence swindles all across the western United States, he is most famous for having a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver and Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska, from 1879 to 1898. Pic.
||1898: "Soapy" Smith dies in shootout ... con artist and gangster in the Old West. His most famous scam, the prize package soap sell racket, earned him the sobriquet of "Soapy", which remained with him to his death. Although he traveled and operated his confidence swindles all across the western United States, he is most famous for having a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver and Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska, from 1879 to 1898. Pic.

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  • 1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.

    1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.

  • 1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.

    1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.

  • 1767: Anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and crime-fighter Anna Morandi Manzolini publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent Organic golem generation.

    1767: Anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and crime-fighter Anna Morandi Manzolini publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent Organic golem generation.

  • 1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.

    1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.

  • 1948: Janet Beta at ENIAC "raises more questions that it answers," says director of Project Blue Book.

    1948: Janet Beta at ENIAC "raises more questions that it answers," says director of Project Blue Book.

  • 1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.

    1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.

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