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||Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard FRS (d. 1894), also known as Charles Edward, was a Mauritian physiologist and neurologist who, in 1850, became the first to describe what is now called Brown-Séquard syndrome. | ||Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard FRS (d. 1894), also known as Charles Edward, was a Mauritian physiologist and neurologist who, in 1850, became the first to describe what is now called Brown-Séquard syndrome. | ||
||Chiungtze C. Tsen (b. April 2, 1898) was a Chinese mathematician born in Nanchang, Jiangxi, who proved Tsen's theorem. Pic. | |||
||1900 – The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule. | ||1900 – The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule. | ||
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1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.
1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."
1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. He will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
1924: Famed gem detective Niles Cartouchian foils villains, recovers stolen Pharaonic treasure and returns it to Egypt, winning acclaim both national and global.