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||1891: Angus MacFarlane-Grieve born ... academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier. No pics online. | |||
File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: Public outrage in response to the short film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]'' triggers a worldwide outbreak of [[Scrimshaw abuse]]. | File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: Public outrage in response to the short film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]'' triggers a worldwide outbreak of [[Scrimshaw abuse]]. | ||
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868: A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
1610: Priest and mathematician Matteo Ricci dies. Ricci translated Euclid's Elements into Chinese, as well as the Confucian classics into Latin, for the first time.
1845: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Jacques Philippe Marie Binet publishes new theory of crimes against mathematical constants using fundamental principles of matrix algebra.
1858: Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
1903: Public outrage in response to the short film Electrocuting an Elephant triggers a worldwide outbreak of Scrimshaw abuse.
1918: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman born. Feynmann will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
2018: Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Spiral Rings 2 reveals "at least two hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.