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||1474: Ali Qushji dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. | ||1474: Ali Qushji dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1625: Erhard Weigel born ... mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. He will work to make science more widely accessible to the public. Pic. | ||1625: Erhard Weigel born ... mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. He will work to make science more widely accessible to the public. Pic. | ||
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File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1653: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. | File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1653: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. | ||
||1770: Roger Long dies ... astronomer | ||1770: Roger Long dies ... astronomer. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1774: François Quesnay dies ... economist, physician, and philosopher. | ||1774: François Quesnay dies ... economist, physician, and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1776: Johann Wilhelm Ritter born ... chemist, physicist, and philosopher. | ||1776: Johann Wilhelm Ritter born ... chemist, physicist, and philosopher. | ||
||1783: Arima Yoriyuki dies ... mathematician and educator. Pic. | |||
||1804: Viktor Bunyakovsky born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1804: Viktor Bunyakovsky born ... mathematician and academic. | ||
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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.
2012: Signed first edition of Electrical Storm voted Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Red Spiral unexpectedly reveals "at least three hundred and fifty kilobytes" of encrypted data relating to the color red.