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||1868: Alessandro Padoa born ... mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano. He is remembered for a method for deciding whether, given some formal theory, a new primitive notion is truly independent of the other primitive notions. Pic. | ||1868: Alessandro Padoa born ... mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano. He is remembered for a method for deciding whether, given some formal theory, a new primitive notion is truly independent of the other primitive notions. Pic. | ||
File:George Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. | File:George Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. | ||
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||1918: Marcel Chaput born ... biochemist, journalist, and a militant for the independence of Quebec from Canada. Along with some 20 other people including André D'Allemagne and Jacques Bellemare, he was a founding member of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN). Pic search. | ||1918: Marcel Chaput born ... biochemist, journalist, and a militant for the independence of Quebec from Canada. Along with some 20 other people including André D'Allemagne and Jacques Bellemare, he was a founding member of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN). Pic search. | ||
||1932: Anatoly Larkin born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||1932: Anatoly Larkin born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
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||2012: Gart Westerhout dies ... astronomer and academic ... Westerhout specialized in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen. Pic. | ||2012: Gart Westerhout dies ... astronomer and academic ... Westerhout specialized in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen. Pic. | ||
File:Mandelbrot-AI-interview.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot|2019: An [[Benoit Mandelbrot|artificial intelligence based on the mind of Benoit Mandelbrot]] gives an impromptu lecture at the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Mandelbrot-AI-interview.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot|2019: An [[Benoit Mandelbrot|artificial intelligence based on the mind of Benoit Mandelbrot]] gives an impromptu lecture at the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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At the Battle of Hastings, alleged supervillain 1613911531218 shouts a new battle cry: "Be Gay Do Crime!"
1831: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
1884: Inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
2008: Engineer and American intelligence officer Robert Furman dies. Furman was chief of foreign intelligence for the Manhattan Project, directing espionage against the German nuclear energy project, and, near the end of the war, rounding up German atomic scientists.
2010: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies. Mandelbrot was a pioneer of fractal geometry: he coined the word "fractal" and discovered the Mandelbrot set.
2019: An artificial intelligence based on the mind of Benoit Mandelbrot gives an impromptu lecture at the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada.