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||1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. | ||1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. | ||
||1900 – W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (d. 1993) | ||1900 – W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (d. 1993) Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by the U.S. Department of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. | ||
||1914 – Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) | ||1914 – Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) | ||
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1831: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
1881: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes calls Extract of Radium "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."
1884: Inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1948: Musician and physicist J. R. Oppenheimer performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
2010: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies.
