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||1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882) | ||1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882) | ||
||Eugen Goldstein (b. 5 September 1850) was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton. | |||
||1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821) | ||1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821) | ||
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1575: Mathematician Federico Commandino born. He will gain fame for his central role as translator of works of ancient mathematicians.
1588: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to locate alleged supervillain Anarchimedes.
1725: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.
1947: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.
1948: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman dies. He made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
1948: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1977: Voyager 1 spacecraft launches. It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.
2017: Art thieves steal Six Seconds to Hell, demand million-dollar ransom.