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File:Harald Cramér.jpg|link=Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician and statistician [[Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|Harald Cramér]] born. He will help found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."
File:Harald Cramér.jpg|link=Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician and statistician [[Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|Harald Cramér]] born. He will help found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."
In the late 1920s, Cramér became interested in the field of probability, which at the time was not an accepted branch of mathematics. Cramér knew that a radical change was needed in this field, and


||1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
||1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.

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  • 1644: Astronomer and instrument maker Ole Rømer born. He will make the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

    1644: Astronomer and instrument maker Ole Rømer born. He will make the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

  • 1789: The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.

    1789: The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.

  • 1845: Judge Havelock With Glass is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," according to the Judge.

    1845: Judge Havelock With Glass is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," according to the Judge.

  • 1893: Mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér born. He will help found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."

    1893: Mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér born. He will help found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."

  • 2003: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton dies.

    2003: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton dies.

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