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||1920: Augusto Righi dies ... physicist and a pioneer in the study of electromagnetism. Pic. | ||1920: Augusto Righi dies ... physicist and a pioneer in the study of electromagnetism. Pic. | ||
||1925: Gury | ||1925: Gury Marchuk born ... prominent Soviet and Russian scientist in the fields of computational mathematics, and physics of atmosphere. Pic. | ||
||1930: Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018). | ||1930: Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018). | ||
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||2004: The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882. | ||2004: The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882. | ||
||2011: Anatole Abragam dies ... physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Pic. | ||2011: Anatole Abragam dies ... physicist who wrote ''The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism'' and made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Pic. | ||
||2012: Charles E. M. Pearce dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to probabilistic and statistical modelling and analysis; his applied interests included queuing theory, road traffic, telecommunications, and urban planning. Pic. | ||2012: Charles E. M. Pearce dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to probabilistic and statistical modelling and analysis; his applied interests included queuing theory, road traffic, telecommunications, and urban planning. Pic. | ||
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1625: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini born. He will discover four satellites of the planet Saturn and note the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division will be named after him.
1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later Bill of Rights amendments.
1809: Thomas Paine dies. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
1887: Inventor Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', his punched card calculator.
1912: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1955: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee born. He will invent the World Wide Web.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Green Sprouts reveals "over three hundred and fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.