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||1258: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. | ||1258: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. | ||
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||1846: Ira Remsen dies ... chemist and academic, co-discovered saccharine. Pic. | ||1846: Ira Remsen dies ... chemist and academic, co-discovered saccharine. Pic. | ||
||1865: Heinrich Lenz (Emil Lenz) dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||1865: Heinrich Lenz (Emil Lenz) dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
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||1936: Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh born ... statistician especially known for his contributions to sequential analysis. Pic. | ||1936: Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh born ... statistician especially known for his contributions to sequential analysis. Pic. | ||
||1944: E. M. Antoniadi dies ... astronomer and chess player. | ||1944: E. M. Antoniadi dies ... astronomer and chess player. Pic. | ||
||1948: Egon Schweidler, dies ... physicist. He pointed out (in 1899) the statistical nature of the radioactive decay or the magnetic deflection of beta radiation as fast electrons. His predicted variations (1905) of the ionization radiation formed in the end a large number of theoretical and experimental investigations. Pic. | ||1948: Egon Schweidler, dies ... physicist. He pointed out (in 1899) the statistical nature of the radioactive decay or the magnetic deflection of beta radiation as fast electrons. His predicted variations (1905) of the ionization radiation formed in the end a large number of theoretical and experimental investigations. Pic. | ||
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File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1957: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1957: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1962: Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition | ||1962: Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opens; it includes Look Mickey, which features his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for. Pic. | ||
File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]] is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. | File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]] is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. | ||
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1575: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Antonio Magini promotes the geocentric system of the world, failing to understand the nature of crimes against astronomical constants.
1630: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller René Descartes publishes new theory of mind and reason which anticipates modern Gnomon algorithm techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster dies.
1900: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1891: Mathematician and physicist Sofia Kovalevskaya dies. Kovalevskaya made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics.
1902: Physicist and academic Walter Houser Brattain born. He will share the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 "for research on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect."
1912: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister dies. He pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.
1952: Inventor Edward Hugh Hebern dies. He was a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.
1957: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, performs new work based on Gnomon algorithm functions.
1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
2017: Green City Skyline voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.