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||1575: Francesco Maurolico (d. 21/22 July 1575) was a mathematician and astronomer. He made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy. | ||1575: Francesco Maurolico (d. 21/22 July 1575) was a mathematician and astronomer. He made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy. | ||
|File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1800: Engineer, inventor, and [[APTO]] agent [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] ... TO DO. | |||
File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] born. He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s. | File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] born. He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s. |
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1810: Chemist and physicist Henri Victor Regnault born. He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.
1910: Physicist John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within giant novelty Fleming tube.
1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
2016: Synthetic organism Ultravore begins consuming radioactive chemical waste at the Hanford Site.
2018: Dragons Fighting voted Pictire of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.