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1895 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema. | |||
1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays. | |||
1882 – Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (d. 1944) | |||
1663 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618) | |||
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1933: Carnivorous dirigibles break their tethers, eat over two hundred head of cattle.
1997: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth invents new type of scrying engine.
2001: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1895 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.
1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
1882 – Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (d. 1944)
1663 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)