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||1827: Frederick Abel dies ... chemist and engineer ... explosives, smokeless powder, electrical fuses. Pic. | ||1827: Frederick Abel dies ... chemist and engineer ... explosives, smokeless powder, electrical fuses. Pic. | ||
||1839: Ephraim Shay born ... engineer, invented the Shay locomotive. | ||1839: Ephraim Shay born ... engineer, invented the Shay locomotive. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=ephraim+shay&oq=Ephraim+Shay | ||
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||1980: Boris Delaunay dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1980: Boris Delaunay dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||982: Mihai Pătrașcu born ... computer scientist. Pătraşcu’s work was concerned with fundamental questions about basic data structures. Pic. | |||
||1984: Yakov Geronimus dies ... mathematician known for contributions to theoretical mechanics and the study of orthogonal polynomials. The Geronimus polynomials are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.technion.ac.il/hat/people/pix/geronimus.jpg | ||1984: Yakov Geronimus dies ... mathematician known for contributions to theoretical mechanics and the study of orthogonal polynomials. The Geronimus polynomials are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.technion.ac.il/hat/people/pix/geronimus.jpg | ||
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1845: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1911: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes criticized for his unpatriotic opinions.
1912: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré dies. He made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1913: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1920: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould born. He will invent and name the laser.
1929: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: The Port Chicago disaster: Munitions detonate while being loaded onto a cargo vessel bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations, killing 320 sailors and civilians and injuring 390 others at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States.
1944: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
2018: Angry Feller stolen from the Louvre in daytime raid by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.