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||1849: Raphael Meldola born ... chemist and entomologist. Meldola blue. Pic. | ||1849: Raphael Meldola born ... chemist and entomologist. Meldola blue. Pic. | ||
||1851: Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé dies ... Belgian nobleman and convicted murderer. He poisoned his brother-in-law in order to acquire some urgently needed money. In 1851, the chemist Jean Servais Stas proved that Visart de Bocarmé had used nicotine extracted from tobacco leaves as poison. This was the first exact proof of alkaloids in forensic medicine. Pic. | |||
||1857: Stefano Franscini dies ... statistician and politician. | ||1857: Stefano Franscini dies ... statistician and politician. | ||
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||1878: Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1878: Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1881: Friedrich Dessauer born ... physicist and philosopher. Pic search | ||1881: Friedrich Dessauer born ... physicist and philosopher. Pic search. | ||
||1883: Max Fleischer born ... animator and producer. | ||1883: Max Fleischer born ... animator and producer. | ||
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File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1894: Mathematician and academic [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory. | File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1894: Mathematician and academic [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory. | ||
||1894: Percy Spencer born ... physicist and inventor of the microwave oven. Pic search | ||1894: Percy Spencer born ... physicist and inventor of the microwave oven. Pic search. | ||
File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1895: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] says that [[Extract of Radium]] gives her the steady nerves she needs to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1895: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] says that [[Extract of Radium]] gives her the steady nerves she needs to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1984: New type of [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] displays artificial intelligence, forecasts [[crimes against mathematical constants]] up to ten megabytes per fluid minute in advance. | File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1984: New type of [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] displays artificial intelligence, forecasts [[crimes against mathematical constants]] up to ten megabytes per fluid minute in advance. | ||
||2002: Arthur Lee Loeb dies ... scientist and crystallographer. His life's work involved the articulation of a language of spatial patterns. His language, which he described as "Visual Mathematics" and "Design Science," led to lifelong collaboration with innovators such as R. Buckminster Fuller and M.C. Escher. Pic search | ||2002: Arthur Lee Loeb dies ... scientist and crystallographer. His life's work involved the articulation of a language of spatial patterns. His language, which he described as "Visual Mathematics" and "Design Science," led to lifelong collaboration with innovators such as R. Buckminster Fuller and M.C. Escher. Pic search. | ||
||2006: George Wetherill dies ... physicist and academic. He contributed to high-precision geochronology, radiometric chronology of meteorite and lunar samples, and numerical techniques for predicting the physical and orbital properties of terrestrial planets. Pic search tech | ||2006: George Wetherill dies ... physicist and academic. He contributed to high-precision geochronology, radiometric chronology of meteorite and lunar samples, and numerical techniques for predicting the physical and orbital properties of terrestrial planets. Pic search tech. | ||
||2007: Roberto Fontanarrosa dies ... cartoonist. | ||2007: Roberto Fontanarrosa dies ... cartoonist. | ||
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1588: Scholar, printer, and private detective Franciscus Raphelengius produces an Arabic-Latin lexicon of Gnomon algorithm functions — the first publication by printing press of a Gnomonic dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin.
1631: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1814: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt born. He will found Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1893: Famed gem detective and diplomat Niles Cartouchian foils villains, returns stolen relics, brokers peace accord.
1894: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1895: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane says that Extract of Radium gives her the steady nerves she needs to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Physicist Hugh Everett III dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.
1984: New type of Lorenz system displays artificial intelligence, forecasts crimes against mathematical constants up to ten megabytes per fluid minute in advance.
2017: Two Creatures 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.