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||1537: Francesco Barozzi born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic. | ||1537: Francesco Barozzi born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic. | ||
||1722: Robert Sibbald dies ... physician and antiquary. Pic. | |||
||1726: Francesco Cetti born ... priest, zoologist, and mathematician. Pic. | ||1726: Francesco Cetti born ... priest, zoologist, and mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1757: Thomas Telford born ... architect and | ||1757: Thomas Telford born ... civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and road, bridge and canal builder. Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed The Colossus of Roads. Pic. | ||
||1776: Amedeo Avogadro born ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||1776: Amedeo Avogadro born ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||
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1899: Chemist Edward Frankland dies. He was one of the originators of organometallic chemistry, introducing the concept of combining power or valence.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1927: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky born.
1928: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Vito Volterra uses principles of functional analysis to locate and apprehend math criminals.
1932: Mathematician John Charles Fields dies. He founded the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1973: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for his next film by selling shares in the President Nixon's resignation.
1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "advised President Nixon to resign with dignity, and take revenge later."
2000: Mathematician and crime-fighter Armand Borel publishes new theory of linear algebraic groups with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
2006: Physicist and philosopher James Van Allen dies. The Van Allen radiation belts are named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.
2016: Signed first edition of Green City Skyline purchased by "an eminent Gnomon algorithm theorist residing in New Minneapolis, Canada.