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||1849: John Caldecott dies ... East India Company commercial agent, meteorologist and astronomer who worked in the court of the Raja of Travancore at the Trivandrum Observatory. Pic: http://pazhayathu.blogspot.com/2012/05/john-caldecott-born-16-sept-1801-royal.html | ||1849: John Caldecott dies ... East India Company commercial agent, meteorologist and astronomer who worked in the court of the Raja of Travancore at the Trivandrum Observatory. Pic: http://pazhayathu.blogspot.com/2012/05/john-caldecott-born-16-sept-1801-royal.html | ||
||1857: Edward Emerson Barnard born ... astronomer ... recognized as a gifted observational astronomer ... best known for his discovery of the high proper motion of Barnard's Star in 1916, which is named in his honor. Pic. | |||
||1869: Bertha Lamme Feicht born ... electrical engineer. She will be the first American woman to graduate in a main discipline of engineering other than civil engineering. Pic. | ||1869: Bertha Lamme Feicht born ... electrical engineer. She will be the first American woman to graduate in a main discipline of engineering other than civil engineering. Pic. | ||
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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.