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||1802: Jean-Daniel Colladon dies ... physicist. Light Pipe. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jean-Daniel+Colladon | ||1802: Jean-Daniel Colladon dies ... physicist. Light Pipe. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jean-Daniel+Colladon | ||
János_Bolyai_-_Romanian_postage_stamp_circa_1960.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1802: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry. | |||
||1823: August Yulevich Davidov dies ... mathematician and engineer, professor at Moscow University, and author of works on differential equations with partial derivatives, definite integrals, and the application of probability theory to statistics, and textbooks on elementary mathematics. Pic. | ||1823: August Yulevich Davidov dies ... mathematician and engineer, professor at Moscow University, and author of works on differential equations with partial derivatives, definite integrals, and the application of probability theory to statistics, and textbooks on elementary mathematics. Pic. | ||
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1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.
1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
2017: Signed first edition of Pilgrim stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.