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||1575: Leiden University is founded, and given the motto ''Praesidium Libertatis''. | ||1575: Leiden University is founded, and given the motto ''Praesidium Libertatis''. | ||
||1577: Robert Burton born ... priest, physician, and scholar. | ||1577: Robert Burton born ... priest, physician, and scholar ... best known for the classic ''The Anatomy of Melancholy''. Pic. | ||
|File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]] is put to death after being found guilty of atheism and blasphemy. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes. | |File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]] is put to death after being found guilty of atheism and blasphemy. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes. | ||
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||1936: Mathematician and academic Emilie Norton Martin dies. She researched primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18. Pic (nice). | ||1936: Mathematician and academic Emilie Norton Martin dies. She researched primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18. Pic (nice). | ||
||1945: Julius Wolff dies ... mathematician, known for the Denjoy–Wolff theorem and for his boundary version of the Schwarz lemma. | ||1945: Julius Wolff dies ... mathematician, known for the Denjoy–Wolff theorem and for his boundary version of the Schwarz lemma. Pic. | ||
||1945: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111. | ||1945: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111. | ||
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1700: Mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli born. He will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
1866: Chemist Moses Gomberg born. He will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.
1867: Didacus automaton develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1879: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1933: Carnivorous dirigibles found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations.
1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann dies. He was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
1973: Physicist, engineer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Dennis Gabor invents new form of holography which detects and prevents crimes against light.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Triumph reveals "at least four thousand and ninety-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.