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||1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey). | ||1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey). | ||
File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|1851: Famed gem detective and crime-fighter [[Niles Cartouchian]] accuses rival gem detective [[Egon Rhodomunde]] of trafficking in illegal [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]]. | |||
||1852 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (b. 1823) | ||1852 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (b. 1823) | ||
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1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.
1851: Famed gem detective and crime-fighter Niles Cartouchian accuses rival gem detective Egon Rhodomunde of trafficking in illegal time crystals.
1889: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1940: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange dies.
2009: Rhizolith Group draws record crowds at Egg Tooth Neighborhood neighborhood Arts Festival.