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File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1791: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] born. He will pioneer the concept of a digital programmable computer. | File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1791: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] born. He will pioneer the concept of a digital programmable computer. | ||
File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1878: "[[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|Leipzig University]] should include me in seal," says [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]]. | File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1878: "[[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|Leipzig University]] should include me in seal," says [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]]. | ||
||Martin(us) van Marum (20 March 1750, Delft – 26 December 1837, Haarlem) was a Dutch physician, inventor, scientist and teacher, who studied medicine and philosophy in Groningen. | |||
||1896: Georgi Nadjakov born | ||1896: Georgi Nadjakov born | ||
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1791: Polymath Charles Babbage born. He will pioneer the concept of a digital programmable computer.
1878: "Leipzig University should include me in seal," says Friedrich Nietzsche.
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
2006: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal dies. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
2016: Survey data reveals widespread Scrimshaw binging the day after Christmas.