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||1860 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass (d. 1930) | ||1860 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass (d. 1930) | ||
||Rikitarō Fujisawa (b. 12 October 1861) was a Japanese mathematician. During the Meiji era he was instrumental in reforming mathematics education in Japan and establishing the ideas of European mathematics in Japan. Pic. | |||
||1865 – Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) | ||1865 – Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) | ||
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322 BC: Athenian politician and orator Demosthenes takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies.
1586: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to communicate with Aleister Crowley.
1705: Priest, philosopher, and crime-fighter Nicolas Malebranche synthesizes the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, demonstrating the active role of crimes against mathematical constants in every aspect of the world.
1875: Magician and author Aleister Crowley born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.
1995: Steganographic analysis of Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus reveals three terabytes of encrypted data.