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|File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean. | |File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean. | ||
||Auguste Arthur de la Rive (b. November 27, 1873) was a Swiss physicist. | |||
||1874 – Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952) | ||1874 – Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952) | ||
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1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.
1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
