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||1920: Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy dies ... archaeologist and engineer ... noted for his excavations at Susa (modern-day Shush, Iran) in 1885 and for his work, L'Art antique de la Perse. Pic.
||1920: Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy dies ... archaeologist and engineer ... noted for his excavations at Susa (modern-day Shush, Iran) in 1885 and for his work, L'Art antique de la Perse. Pic.


||1922: Ernst Gabor Straus born ... mathematician of Jewish origin who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions.  Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Straus.html
||1922: Ernst Gabor Straus born ... mathematician ... contributed to Euclidean Ramsey theory and the arithmetic properties of analytic functions.  Straus was the first to pose the Illumination problem. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=ernst+g.+straus


||1926: Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda (Masatoşi Gündüz İkeda) born ... mathematician of Japanese ancestry, known for his contributions to the field of algebraic number theory. Pic.
||1926: Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda (Masatoşi Gündüz İkeda) born ... mathematician of Japanese ancestry, known for his contributions to the field of algebraic number theory. Pic.

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  • 1598: John Dee demonstrates the solar eclipse by viewing an image through a pinhole. Two versions from Ashmole and Aubrey give different details of who was present. Dee's Diary only contains the notation, "the eclips. A clowdy day, but great darkness about 9 1/2 maine".

    1598: John Dee demonstrates the solar eclipse by viewing an image through a pinhole. Two versions from Ashmole and Aubrey give different details of who was present. Dee's Diary only contains the notation, "the eclips. A clowdy day, but great darkness about 9 1/2 maine".

  • 1836: Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.

    1836: Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.

  • 1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1971: Chemist and academic Theodor Svedberg dies. He was awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another.

    1971: Chemist and academic Theodor Svedberg dies. He was awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another.

  • 1972: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus dies. He "discovered" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he made notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.

    1972: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus dies. He "discovered" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he made notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.

  • 1999: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.

    1999: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.

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