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||1514: Hartmann Schedel dies ... physician, humanist, historian, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press. Pic: illustration. | |||
||1520: An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan. Pic. | ||1520: An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan. Pic. | ||
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File:Japanese counting board.jpg|link=Rod calculus (nonfiction)|1760: First known use of Japanese [[Rod calculus (nonfiction)|rod calculus]] to compute [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Japanese counting board.jpg|link=Rod calculus (nonfiction)|1760: First known use of Japanese [[Rod calculus (nonfiction)|rod calculus]] to compute [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1772: Luke Howard born ... chemist and meteorologist. | ||1772: Luke Howard born ... chemist and meteorologist. His lasting contribution to science is a nomenclature system for clouds, which he proposed in an 1802 presentation to the Askesian Society. Pic. | ||
||1810: William Froude born ... engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships (such as the hull speed equation) and for predicting their stability. Pic. | ||1810: William Froude born ... engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships (such as the hull speed equation) and for predicting their stability. Pic. | ||
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1607: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Laurentius Paulinus Gothus publishes his landmark study Crimina Astronomicae in Constantibus.
1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born.
1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to compute Gnomon algorithm functions.
1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1966: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky dies. He worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
2018: Triumph voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2018: The Moscow cable car hack begins: computers at Moscow Ropeway (MKD), which manages Moscow's re-built cable car line, are infected with ransomware. MKD will stop all operations as soon as it realizes what has happened, bringing all 35 eight-seat cable cars to a halt. There will be no reported injuries, and all cable cars will land safely.