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||1822 – Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion. | ||1822 – Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion. | ||
||Bailie Hugh Blackburn (b. 2 July 1823) was a Scottish mathematician. A lifelong friend of William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), and the husband of illustrator Jemima Blackburn, he was professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow from 1849 to 1879. Pic. | |||
||William Burnside (b. 2 July 1852) was an English mathematician. He is known mostly as an early researcher in the theory of finite groups. | ||William Burnside (b. 2 July 1852) was an English mathematician. He is known mostly as an early researcher in the theory of finite groups. | ||
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1698: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
1699: Omar Khayyam publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1778: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.
1897: British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1937: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.