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File:Reginald Fessenden.jpg|link=Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|1866: Inventor [[Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|Reginald Fessenden]] born. He will perform pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music. | File:Reginald Fessenden.jpg|link=Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|1866: Inventor [[Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|Reginald Fessenden]] born. He will perform pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music. | ||
||Benjamin Peirce (d. October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics. Pic. | |||
||1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. | ||1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. | ||
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1784: Mathematician, engineer, cartographer, economist, and politician Charles Dupin born. In 1826 he will create the earliest known choropleth map.
1831: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind born. He will make important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
1851: Mechanical soldier Clock Head co-founds the town of Periphery.
1866: Inventor Reginald Fessenden born. He will perform pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.
1902: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.