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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.
1905: Mathematician, author, and poet Piet Hein born. He will propose the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses will become the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.
1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
1968: Jekyll, the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.

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 ||1882 – Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer (d. 1974)
-||Johann Karl August Radon (b. 16 December 1887) was an Austrian mathematician. He will make a number of contributions, including the Radon measure concept of measure as linear functional, and
+||Johann Karl August Radon (b. 16 December 1887) was an Austrian mathematician. He will make a number of contributions, including the Radon measure concept of measure as linear functional, and Radon's theorem that d + 2 points in d dimensions may always be partitioned into two subsets with intersecting convex hulls. Pic.
-Radon's theorem that d + 2 points in d dimensions may always be partitioned into two subsets with intersecting convex hulls. Pic.
 File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1887: Polymath and crime-fighter [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].