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File:Japanese counting board.jpg|link=Rod calculus (nonfiction)|1762: First use of Japanese [[Rod calculus (nonfiction)|rod calculus]] to confirm the [[APTO]] Accords. | File:Japanese counting board.jpg|link=Rod calculus (nonfiction)|1762: First use of Japanese [[Rod calculus (nonfiction)|rod calculus]] to confirm the [[APTO]] Accords. | ||
||1795: Gérard Paul Deshayes born ... geologist and chronologist. | ||1795: Gérard Paul Deshayes born ... geologist and chronologist. Pic search limited: https://www.google.com/search?q=Gérard+Paul+Deshayes Pic book cover: https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12459618/gerard-paul_deshayes/ | ||
File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] born either today or yesterday. | File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] born either today or yesterday. | ||
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||1849: Lou Blonger born ... Wild West saloonkeeper, gambling-house owner, and mine speculator, but is best known as the kingpin of an extensive ring of confidence tricksters that operated for more than 25 years in Denver, Colorado. His "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" was brought to justice in a famous trial in 1923. Pic. | ||1849: Lou Blonger born ... Wild West saloonkeeper, gambling-house owner, and mine speculator, but is best known as the kingpin of an extensive ring of confidence tricksters that operated for more than 25 years in Denver, Colorado. His "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" was brought to justice in a famous trial in 1923. Pic. | ||
||1857: Ronald Ross born ... physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1857: Ronald Ross born ... physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1859: Denison Olmsted dies ... physicist and astronomer. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon. | ||1859: Denison Olmsted dies ... physicist and astronomer. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon. | ||
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1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1733: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus invents a binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy to define and characterize a wide range of crimes against mathematical constants.
1762: First use of Japanese rod calculus to confirm the APTO Accords.
1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or yesterday.
1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1929: Electrical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius dies. He invented and patented the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine.
1936: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."
1937: Writer Roger Zelazny born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1939: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician Stanisław Leśniewski dies. He posited three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.
2018: Green City Skyline voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.