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1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.
1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.
1919: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
2013: Pond At Dawn voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||1918: José Leite Lopes born ... theoretical physicist who worked in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics. Political refugee from Brazil. Pic search.
-File:Gerhard Ringel surfing.jpg|link=Gerhard Ringel (nonfiction)|1919: Mathematician and academic [[Gerhard Ringel (nonfiction)|Gerhard Ringel]] born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.
+File:Gerhard Ringel surfing.jpg|link=Gerhard Ringel (nonfiction)|1919: Mathematician and academic [[Gerhard Ringel (nonfiction)|Gerhard Ringel]] born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the [[Four color theorem (nonfiction)|Four color theorem]].
 ||1919: The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.