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||1736: Stephen Gray dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic: http://blog.wireandcableyourway.com/stephen-gray-and-the-invention-of-wire | ||1736: Stephen Gray dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic: http://blog.wireandcableyourway.com/stephen-gray-and-the-invention-of-wire | ||
||1804: John Deere born ... blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company. Pic. | ||1804: John Deere born ... blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Deere+portrait&oq=John+Deere+portrait | ||
||1819: Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar. Pic. | ||1819: Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar. Pic. | ||
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||2000: Doug Henning dies ... magician and politician. Pic. | ||2000: Doug Henning dies ... magician and politician. Pic. | ||
||2007: Alan MacDiarmid dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. His best-known research was the discovery and development of conductive polymers—plastic materials that conduct electricity. He collaborated with the Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa and the American physicist Alan Heeger in this research and published the first results in 1977. The three of them shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work. Pic. | |||
||2013: The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995. | ||2013: The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995. | ||
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1877: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
1889: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.
1897: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
1949: Mathematician, physicist, and computer crime investigator John von Neumann publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
1961: Mathematician and military intelligence officer Janet Beta is secretly dosed with Clandestiphrine.
1999: NASA launches the spacecraft Stardust. On January 2, 2004 it will fly by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to earth on 15 January 2006.