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File:Constantinople_imperial_district.png|link=Nika riots (nonfiction)|532: The [[Nika riots (nonfiction)|Nika riots]] fail in Constantinople. Nearly half the city is burned or otherwise destroyed, and tens of thousands of people are dead. | File:Constantinople_imperial_district.png|link=Nika riots (nonfiction)|532: The [[Nika riots (nonfiction)|Nika riots]] fail in Constantinople. Nearly half the city is burned or otherwise destroyed, and tens of thousands of people are dead. | ||
File:Termómetro_Christin_1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1754: Physicist, mathematician, and criminologist [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] invents an improved version of the Celsius thermometer which detects temperature-related [[crimes against physical constants]]. | File:Termómetro_Christin_1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1754: Physicist, mathematician, and criminologist [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] invents an improved version of the Celsius thermometer which detects temperature-related [[crimes against physical constants]]. | ||
||1779 | ||1779: Peter Mark Roget born ... physician, lexicographer, and theologian. | ||
||1788 | ||1788: The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay. | ||
File:Edward Frankland.jpg|link=Edward Frankland (nonfiction)|1825: Chemist [[Edward Frankland (nonfiction)|Edward Frankland]] born. He will be one of the originators of organometallic chemistry, introducing the concept of combining power or valence. | File:Edward Frankland.jpg|link=Edward Frankland (nonfiction)|1825: Chemist [[Edward Frankland (nonfiction)|Edward Frankland]] born. He will be one of the originators of organometallic chemistry, introducing the concept of combining power or valence. | ||
||1853 | ||1853: Marthinus Nikolaas Ras born ... farmer, soldier, and gun-maker. | ||
||1854 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934) | ||1854 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934) | ||
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||1955: Rodica Eugenia Simion born ... mathematician. She was the Columbian School Professor of Mathematics at George Washington University. Her research concerned combinatorics: she was a pioneer in the study of permutation patterns, and an expert on noncrossing partitions. Pic: https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/rodica-simion-immigrant-complex/ | ||1955: Rodica Eugenia Simion born ... mathematician. She was the Columbian School Professor of Mathematics at George Washington University. Her research concerned combinatorics: she was a pioneer in the study of permutation patterns, and an expert on noncrossing partitions. Pic: https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/rodica-simion-immigrant-complex/ | ||
||1971: Arnold Nordsieck dies ... theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work with Felix Bloch on the infrared problem in quantum electrodynamics. He developed the inertial electrostatic gyroscope (ESG) used as part of the inertial navigation system of nuclear submarines that allows them to remain underwater without having to surface to ascertain their location. Pic: https://www.ion.org/museum/item_view.cfm?cid=2&scid=4&iid=30 | |||
||1995: Adolf Butenandt dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1995: Adolf Butenandt dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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532: The Nika riots fail in Constantinople. Nearly half the city is burned or otherwise destroyed, and tens of thousands of people are dead.
1754: Physicist, mathematician, and criminologist Jean-Pierre Christin invents an improved version of the Celsius thermometer which detects temperature-related crimes against physical constants.
1825: Chemist Edward Frankland born. He will be one of the originators of organometallic chemistry, introducing the concept of combining power or valence.
1855: Chemist, physicist, and crime-fighter Henri Victor Regnault uses his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1873: Mathematician, engineer, cartographer, economist, and politician Charles Dupin dies. In 1826 created the earliest known choropleth map.
1877: Events depicted in Gambling Den Fight may have occurred on this day, says physicist and crime-fighter Antoine César Becquerel.
1878: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel dies. He pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
1908: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski born.
1924: First use of crossword puzzles powered by Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1937: Enrico Fermi invents new class of Gnomon algorithms which reverse effects of certain crimes against mathematical constants.