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||1719: Johann Friedrich Böttger dies ... chemist and potter ... credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in 1708. Pic. | ||1719: Johann Friedrich Böttger dies ... chemist and potter ... credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in 1708. Pic. | ||
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||1900: Giorgos or George Seferis born ... Greek poet-diplomat. He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was a career diplomat in the Greek Foreign Service. Pic. | ||1900: Giorgos or George Seferis born ... Greek poet-diplomat. He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was a career diplomat in the Greek Foreign Service. Pic. | ||
||1908: Myrtle Bachelder born . | File:Myrtle_Bachelder_-_1942.jpg|link=Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|1908: Chemist and US military officer [[Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|Myrtle Bachelder]] born. Bachelder will be responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder will make pioneering contributions to metallochemistry. | ||
File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) born. Dresher will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma. | File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) born. Dresher will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma. | ||
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1764: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1877: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1908: Chemist and US military officer Myrtle Bachelder born. Bachelder will be responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder will make pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.
1911: Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) born. Dresher will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
1969: Physicist, computer scientist, and APTO field engineer Howard H. Aiken publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2013: Tractor voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist Hilary Putnam dies. Putnam argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".