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||1741: Carl Friedrich Hindenburg born ... mathematician born in Dresden. His work centered mostly on combinatorics and probability. Pic: book cover. | ||1741: Carl Friedrich Hindenburg born ... mathematician born in Dresden. His work centered mostly on combinatorics and probability. Pic: book cover. | ||
||1762: James Bradley dies ... priest and astronomer. | ||1762: James Bradley dies ... priest and astronomer. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1793: Jean-Paul Marat dies ... physician and theorist. | ||1793: Jean-Paul Marat dies ... physician and theorist ... French Revolution ... a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes and seen as a radical voice. He published his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers. Pic. | ||
||1807: Johann III Bernoulli dies .... He was known around the world as a child prodigy. Pic. | ||1807: Johann III Bernoulli dies .... He was known around the world as a child prodigy. Pic. | ||
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||1854: Aristarkh Apollonovich Belopolsky born ... Russian astronomer. Pic: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Aristarkh_Apollonovich_Belopolsky.html | ||1854: Aristarkh Apollonovich Belopolsky born ... Russian astronomer. Pic: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Aristarkh_Apollonovich_Belopolsky.html | ||
||1857: Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner dies ... chemist, natural scientist and a professor of physics and chemistry. | ||1857: Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner dies ... chemist, natural scientist and a professor of physics and chemistry. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Karl+Wilhelm+Gottlob+Kastner | ||
||1863: New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history. | ||1863: New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history. | ||
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100 BC: Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar born. He will play a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.
1527: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer John Dee born. He will achieve high status as a scholar and play a role in Elizabethan politics.
1956: John McCarthy (Dartmouth College), Marvin Minsky (MIT), Claude Shannon (Bell Labs), and Nathaniel Rochester (IBM) assemble the first coordinated research meeting on the topic of "Artificial intelligence" at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. USA.
1972: Signed first edition of Skip Digits, Conductor sells for one million dollars; House Democrats say money trail leads to Richard Nixon.
1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the "Nixon tapes" to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break-in.
1974: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hilary Putnam publishes his landmark paper arguing that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical", and that we should beware the possibility of "quasi-empirical crimes".
2015: Steganographic analysis of Blue City Sunset reveals "five hundred kilobytes, perhaps six hundred" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.