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||1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. | ||1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. | ||
||1831 – Michael Faraday (pictured) discovered electromagnetic induction, leading to the formation of his law of induction. | ||1831 – Michael Faraday (pictured) discovered electromagnetic induction, leading to the formation of his law of induction. | ||
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||1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen. | ||1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen. | ||
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||1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident. | ||1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident. | ||
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1780: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks during a test run, killing five members of her crew.
2011: Cryptographic analysis of Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research reveals five terabytes of previously unknown encrypted data.
2012: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi dies. He worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.
2017: Concentrated sample of carbon-14 accidentally exposed to unfiltered Extract of Radium, causing a wave of crimes against mathematical constants.