Template:Selected anniversaries/October 10

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  1641: Torricelli arrives in Arcetri to study with Galileo. ".. postpone his arrival at Arcetri until 10 October 1641. He took up residence in Galileo’s house, where Vincenzo Viviani was already living, and stayed there in close friendship with Galileo until the latter’s death on 8 January 1642.

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  1708: Mathematician and astronomer David Gregory dies. At the Union of 1707, he was given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.

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  1731: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish born. He will discover "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.

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  1888: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule uses the nature of heat, and its relationship to mechanical work, to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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  1889: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren born. He will be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.

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  1943: Mathematician and soldier Janet Beta accepts commission with secret military-intelligence program ENIAC.

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  1957: Windscale fire nuclear accident: The fire burned for three days and there was a release of radioactive contamination that spread across the UK and Europe. The event was not an isolated incident; there had been a series of radioactive discharges from the piles in the years leading up to the accident.

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  1979: Psychologist, computer scientist, and author Christopher Evans dies.

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  2016: Crimson Blossom voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.