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||1873 – Lee de Forest, American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube (d. 1961) | ||1873 – Lee de Forest, American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube (d. 1961) | ||
||Giuseppe Vitali (b. 26 August 1875) was an Italian mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis. He gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers. Pic. | |||
||1882 – James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) | ||1882 – James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) | ||
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1743: Chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
1895: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1974: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.
1995: Writer and peace activist John Brunner dies.
2010: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association sponsors conference on the life and work of writer and crime-fighter John Brunner.
