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1801: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot born. He will introduce the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1966: New study reveals that the Brainiac Explains lecture series is funded by a Brownian racket.
1967: New form of Brownian ratchet discovered.

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+||1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
 File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=|1801: Mathematician and philosopher [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] born. He will introduce the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
+||1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, abolishing slavery through most of the British Empire.
+||1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
+||1853 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian architect and engineer, designed the Adziogol Lighthouse (d. 1939)
+||1859 – The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
+||1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
+||https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Tur%C3%A1n Pál Turán born
+||1965 – Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909)
 File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1966: New study reveals that the [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series is funded by a [[Brownian racket]].
 File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|1967: New form of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] discovered.
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