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||1809 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (b. 1755) | ||1809 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (b. 1755) | ||
||Gyula Kőnig (b. 16 December 1849) was a Hungarian mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1869 – Bertha Lamme Feicht, American electrical engineer (d. 1943) | ||1869 – Bertha Lamme Feicht, American electrical engineer (d. 1943) | ||
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1653: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1887: Polymath and crime-fighter Francis Galton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
1968: Jekyll, the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.