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||1785: Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier ... was a French chemistry and physics teacher, and one of the first pioneers of aviation. He and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon. Pic.
||1785: Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier ... was a French chemistry and physics teacher, and one of the first pioneers of aviation. He and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon. Pic.
||1826: The Auspicious Incident (Ottoman Turkish: "Fortunate Event"; in the Balkans: "Unfortunate Incident") was the forced disbandment of the centuries-old Janissary corps by Sultan Mahmud II. Most of the 135,000 Janissaries revolted against Mahmud II, and after the rebellion was suppressed, its leaders were killed, and many of its members exiled or imprisoned, the Janissary corps was disbanded and replaced with a more modern military force. Pic.


||1844: Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber. Pic.
||1844: Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber. Pic.

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  • 763 BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

    763 BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

  • 1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis.

    1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis.

  • 1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

    1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

  • 1939: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel helps break German military codes using surf-powered gnomon algorithm techniques.

    1939: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel helps break German military codes using surf-powered gnomon algorithm techniques.

  • 1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

    1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Traveller reveals "several hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Traveller reveals "several hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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