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||532 | File:Constantinople_imperial_district.png|link=Nika riots (nonfiction)|532: The [[Nika riots (nonfiction)|Nika riots]] fail in Constantinople. Nearly half the city is burned or otherwise destroyed, and tens of thousands of people are dead. | ||
||1779 – Peter Mark Roget, English physician, lexicographer, and theologian (d. 1869) | ||1779 – Peter Mark Roget, English physician, lexicographer, and theologian (d. 1869) | ||
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532: The Nika riots fail in Constantinople. Nearly half the city is burned or otherwise destroyed, and tens of thousands of people are dead.
1878: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel dies. He pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
1908: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski born.
1923: crossword puzzle modified for use with Gnomon algorithm functions.
1937: Enrico Fermi invents new class of Gnomon algorithms which reverse effects of certain crimes against mathematical constants.
