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||1888 – The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time. | ||1888 – The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time. | ||
||Frank Haven Hall (d. January 3, 1911) was an American inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking. | |||
||1927 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1856) | ||1927 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1856) | ||
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1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
1942: Historian, playwright, and crime-fighter Howard Zinn publishes account of travelling to Abalonia and meeting The Eel.
1954: Actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson born.
1965: Antikythera Team invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.