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||1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented. | ||1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented. | ||
||1919 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist (d. 1984) | ||1919 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist (d. 1984). Pic. | ||
||Dirk Polder (b. August 23, 1919) was a Dutch physicist who, together with Hendrik Casimir, first predicted the existence of what today is known as the Casimir-Polder force, sometimes also referred to as the Casimir effect or Casimir force. | ||Dirk Polder (b. August 23, 1919) was a Dutch physicist who, together with Hendrik Casimir, first predicted the existence of what today is known as the Casimir-Polder force, sometimes also referred to as the Casimir effect or Casimir force. | ||
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1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.
1946: Signed first edition of Alice and Niles Dancing sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.
1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.
2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.