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||1792: John Herschel born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic. | ||1792: John Herschel born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic. | ||
||1809: Jean-Pierre Blanchard dies ... inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight. | ||1809: Jean-Pierre Blanchard dies ... inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight. Pic. | ||
||1837: Henry Draper born ... physician and astronomer. | ||1837: Henry Draper born ... physician and astronomer. | ||
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||1997: Edward Mills Purcell dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1997: Edward Mills Purcell dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1999: Sidney Gottlieb dies ... chemist, theorist, and poisoner. | ||1999: Sidney Gottlieb dies ... chemist, theorist, and poisoner. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=sidney+gottlieb | ||
||1999: Stanley Kubrick dies ... director, producer, and screenwriter ... one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music. | ||1999: Stanley Kubrick dies ... director, producer, and screenwriter ... one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music. | ||
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1765: Inventor Nicéphore Niépce born. He will develop heliography, a technique he will use to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process.
1766: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Daniel Bernoulli publishes new Gnomon algorithm function combining statistics and probability which anticipate later developments in quantum (or transdimensional) corporations.
1788: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
1875: Flying bison (Bison pterobonasus) sighted near Roswell, New Mexico.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction) is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
1875: Gambling Den Fight wins Royal Society award for most exciting new illustration of the year.
1886: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
1898: Theoretical physicist and crime fighter Johannes Diderik van der Waals uses the equation of state for gases and liquids to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1917: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton born. She will be one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging.
1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
2017: Shell voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2019: Steganographic analysis of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) unexpectedly reveals "at least a megabyte" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.