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||1833: Adrien-Marie Legendre dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic (striking caricature). | ||1833: Adrien-Marie Legendre dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic (striking caricature). | ||
||1842: Luigi Pigorini born ... palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer. | ||1842: Luigi Pigorini born ... palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer. Pic. | ||
||1855: Ivan Simonov dies ... astronomer and a geodesist. Pic. | ||1855: Ivan Simonov dies ... astronomer and a geodesist. Pic. | ||
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1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.
1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born.
1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1960: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, announces world tour.