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File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] dies. He invented the figure of John Bull. | File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] dies. He invented the figure of John Bull. | ||
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||1748: Anders Sparrman born ... physician and activist. | ||1748: Anders Sparrman born ... physician and activist. | ||
||1867: Irving Fisher born ... economist, statistician, inventor, and Progressive social campaigner. Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and general equilibrium. His research on the quantity theory of money inaugurated the school of macroeconomic thought known as monetarism. Fisher was also a pioneer of econometrics, including the development of index numbers. Pic. | ||1867: Irving Fisher born ... economist, statistician, inventor, and Progressive social campaigner. Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and general equilibrium. His research on the quantity theory of money inaugurated the school of macroeconomic thought known as monetarism. Fisher was also a pioneer of econometrics, including the development of index numbers. Pic. | ||
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||1930: Paul von Ragué Schleyer born ... chemist and academic. | ||1930: Paul von Ragué Schleyer born ... chemist and academic. | ||
||1931: Erich Wasmann dies ... entomologist, specializing in ants and termites, and Jesuit priest. He described the phenomenon known as Wasmannian mimicry. Wasmann was a supporter of evolution, although he did not accept the productivity of natural selection, the evolution of humans from other animals, or universal common descent of all life. Pic. | |||
||1933: Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. The Nazis used the fire to solidify their power and eliminate the communists as political rivals. | ||1933: Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. The Nazis used the fire to solidify their power and eliminate the communists as political rivals. | ||
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1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.
1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter Red Eyes defeats gang of physics criminals in close-quarters combat.
1869: Physician, research scientist, and author Alice Hamilton born. She will be a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
1870: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil generate new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1881: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer born. He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of love letters between Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.