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||1740: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure born ... physicist and meteorologist ... often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven. Pic. | ||1740: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure born ... physicist and meteorologist ... often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven. Pic. | ||
||1754: Nicolas Baudin born ... cartographer and explorer. | ||1754: Nicolas Baudin born ... cartographer and explorer. Pic. | ||
||1781: René Laennec born ... physician, invented the stethoscope. | ||1781: René Laennec born ... physician, invented the stethoscope. | ||
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||1996: NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros. | ||1996: NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros. | ||
||1998: Ernst Jünger dies ... philosopher and author ... highly-decorated German soldier, author, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel. Pic. | |||
||1999: William David McElroy dies ... biochemist and academic administrator. He initiated an independent research program in bioluminescence, recruiting students to collect fireflies to perform experiments. He discovered the key role that luciferase and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) play in the process. Pic. | ||1999: William David McElroy dies ... biochemist and academic administrator. He initiated an independent research program in bioluminescence, recruiting students to collect fireflies to perform experiments. He discovered the key role that luciferase and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) play in the process. Pic. | ||
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882: Physician, astronomer, mathematician, and crime-fighter Thābit ibn Qurra publishes new theory of Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley engages and sinks the Union warship USS Housatonic. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship.
1864: Mathematician and crime-fighter Marius Sophus Lie publishes new theory of continuous symmetry with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1891: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of George Cantor.
2003: George Plimpton publishes first in prize-winning series of articles on high-energy literature.
2012: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn dies. He made contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Pinwheel Diagram unexpectedly reveals "between four and five hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2018: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Discovers Time Travel reveals five hundred gigabytes of encrypted data.
