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File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1638: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1638: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1763: Astronomer and churchman John Mortimer Brinkley baptized. He will contribute to stellar astronomy, publishing his ''Elements of Plane Astronomy'' in 1808. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Brinkley+(astronomer) | |||
||1769: André-Jacques Garnerin born ... balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. Pic. | ||1769: André-Jacques Garnerin born ... balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. Pic. | ||
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||1881: Irving Langmuir born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1881: Irving Langmuir born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1886: Mathematician and academic George Neville Watson born. He will apply complex analysis to the theory of special functions. In 1918 he proved a significant result known as Watson's lemma, that has many applications in the theory on the asymptotic behaviour of exponential integrals. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=george+neville+watson | |||
||1896: Sofya Yanovskaya born ... mathematician and historian. | ||1896: Sofya Yanovskaya born ... mathematician and historian. | ||
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1632: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi dies. He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
1638: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1933: Physicist and crime-fighter Werner Heisenberg uses the uncertainty principle to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1971: The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
2001: American comic book artist Gil Kane dies.
2002: Anarchimedes uses Gnomon algorithm to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
2008: Talk show host Dick Cavett attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Creature unexpectedly generates cryptographic numina.
