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1820: Physicist John Tyndall born. He will study diamagnetism, and make discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
1835: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray born. He will do pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.
1917: Mathematician and crime-fighter Ferdinand Georg Frobenius publishes theory of elliptic functions with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.
1905: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm to communicate with Edward Lorenz.
1922: Engineer, inventor, and academic Alexander Graham Bell dies. He patented the telephone in 1876.
1939: Albert Einstein writes President F. D. Roosevelt that "some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard ... leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable--though much less certain--that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may be constructed." Roosevelt quickly starts the Manhattan Project.
2015: Pyramid of the Sun voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Green Ring voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||1976: László Kalmár dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
+File:Pyramid of the Sun.jpg||2015: ''[[Pyramid of the Sun (nonfiction)|Pyramid of the Sun]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
 ||2016: Ahmed Hassan Zewail dies ... scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic.