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||1882 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (d. 1946) | ||1882 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (d. 1946) | ||
||Jacob David Tamarkin (b. 11 July 1888) was a Russian-American mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis. | |||
||1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. | ||1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. |
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1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.
1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1931: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge born. He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.
1957: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.
1963: Telstar becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.