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||1886: American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona. Pic. | ||1886: American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona. Pic. | ||
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1887: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] and inventor [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] discuss advances in film technology. | |||
File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film. | File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film. | ||
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||1889: Moses Ilyich Schönfinkel born ... logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic. Pic. | ||1889: Moses Ilyich Schönfinkel born ... logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic. Pic. | ||
||1890: Johannes Gaultherus van der Corput born ... mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He introduced the Van der Corput lemma, a technique for creating an upper bound on the measure of a set drawn from harmonic analysis, and the Van der Corput theorem on equidistribution modulo 1. Pic: https://www.ranker.com/review/johannes-van-der-corput/1298721 | ||1890: Johannes Gaultherus van der Corput born ... mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He introduced the Van der Corput lemma, a technique for creating an upper bound on the measure of a set drawn from harmonic analysis, and the Van der Corput theorem on equidistribution modulo 1. Pic: https://www.ranker.com/review/johannes-van-der-corput/1298721 | ||
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1784: Astronomer and cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury dies. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map.
1881: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes arrives at New Minneapolis, where he will write his well-known essay, A Noble Experiment.
1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.
1887: Math photographer Cantor Parabola and inventor George Eastman discuss advances in film technology.
1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
1916: Civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists José Echegaray y Eizaguirre dies.
1923: Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
- Greer incident (nonfiction)
1941: Greer incident.
1972: Paintings and jewelry worth millions are stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
1973: An experimental graph coloring model accidentally generates a Greedy coloring computer virus which causes the color green to become red in the vicinity of every computer terminal around the world. The virus will be eliminated several hours later by APTO troubleshooters, restoring green to its normal appearance.