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||1867 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788) | ||1867 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788) | ||
||1869 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1931) | ||1869 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1931) Dmitri Fyodorovich Egorov (Russian: Дми́трий Фёдорович Его́ров; December 22, 1869 – September 10, 1931) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for significant contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis. | ||
||1884 – St. Elmo Brady, African American chemist and educator (d. 1966) | ||1884 – St. Elmo Brady, African American chemist and educator (d. 1966) | ||
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1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."
1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.