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1592: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
1873: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory born. He will pioneer the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.
1898: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1900: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess shames math criminals into returning stolen digits, paying compensation for lost computational power, and personally apologizing to everyone who was inconvenienced by this sorry episode of bad behavior, which will never be repeated.
2014: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."

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 ||1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
+||Gregory Breit (d. September 13, 1981) was a Russian-born American physicist and academic. During the early stages of the war, Breit was chosen by Arthur Compton to supervise the early design of the first atomic bomb during an early phase in what would later become the Manhattan Project. Breit resigned his position in 1942, feeling that the work was going too slowly and that there had been security breaches on the project; his job went to Robert Oppenheimer, who was later appointed to scientific director of the entire project. Pic.
 ||1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.