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File:David Hilbert.jpg|link=David Hilbert (nonfiction)|1862: Mathematician [[David Hilbert (nonfiction)|David Hilbert]] born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry. | File:David Hilbert.jpg|link=David Hilbert (nonfiction)|1862: Mathematician [[David Hilbert (nonfiction)|David Hilbert]] born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry. | ||
||Frank Shuman (b. January 23, 1862) was an American inventor, engineer and solar energy pioneer known for his work on solar engines, especially those that used solar energy to heat water that would produce steam. | |||
||1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre. | ||1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre. | ||
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1656: Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1805: Inventor Claude Chappe dies. He invented and developed a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
1854: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker discovers new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1862: Mathematician David Hilbert born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
1941: Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1967: John Brunner uses scrying engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
2003: A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted.
2007: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt dies. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.