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||1995 – Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist and historian (b. 1911) | ||1995 – Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist and historian (b. 1911) | ||
||Arnold Orville Beckman (d. May 18, 2004) was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist. While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity, later considered to have "revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology". Pic. | |||
||2005 – A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra. | ||2005 – A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra. | ||
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1048: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám born.
1661: Mathematician William Oughtred uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect crimes against mathematical constants.
1711: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
1822: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady born. He will be one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
1871: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses Niles Cartouchian of manufacturing illegal time crystals (nonfiction).
1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell born.
1902: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.