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||1863: Arthur Gordon Webster born ... physicist, was a founder and president of the American Physical Society. Pic. | ||1863: Arthur Gordon Webster born ... physicist, was a founder and president of the American Physical Society. Pic. | ||
||1873: Caterina Scarpellini dies ... astronomer and meteorologist. | ||1873: Caterina Scarpellini dies ... astronomer and meteorologist. Pic. | ||
||1876: Karl Ernst von Baer dies ... naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and a founding father of embryology. He was a pioneer in studying biological time – the perception of time in different organisms. Pic. | ||1876: Karl Ernst von Baer dies ... naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and a founding father of embryology. He was a pioneer in studying biological time – the perception of time in different organisms. Pic. | ||
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1607: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Laurentius Paulinus Gothus publishes his landmark study Crimina Astronomicae in Constantibus.
1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake will later be considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Although Blake will be considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he will be held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work.
1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to compute Gnomon algorithm functions.
1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1966: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky dies. He worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
2018: Triumph voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2018: The Moscow cable car hack begins: computers at Moscow Ropeway (MKD), which manages Moscow's re-built cable car line, are infected with ransomware. MKD will stop all operations as soon as it realizes what has happened, bringing all 35 eight-seat cable cars to a halt. There will be no reported injuries, and all cable cars will land safely.