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File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] creates Britain's first television transmitter. | File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] creates Britain's first television transmitter. | ||
||Fabrizio de Miranda (b. October 30, 1926) was an Italian bridges and structural engineer and university professor. | |||
||1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) | ||1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) | ||
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1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.