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||1788: Wilhelmine Reichard born ... balloonist. Pic.
||1788: Wilhelmine Reichard born ... balloonist. Pic.


||1814: Erastus Brigham Bigelow born ... inventor.
||1814: Erastus Brigham Bigelow born ... inventor, weaving machines. Pic.


File:Samuel_Morse_1840.jpg|link=Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|1872: Painter and inventor [[Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|Samuel Morse]] dies.  Morse co-invented the Morse code.
File:Samuel_Morse_1840.jpg|link=Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|1872: Painter and inventor [[Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|Samuel Morse]] dies.  Morse co-invented the Morse code.
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||1900: The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
||1900: The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
||1902: Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.


||1902: "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
||1902: "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
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||1906: Shokichi Iyanaga born ... mathematician. Pic.
||1906: Shokichi Iyanaga born ... mathematician. Pic.


||1910: Chico Xavier born ... spiritual medium.
||1910: Chico Xavier born ... spiritual medium. Pic.


||1911: The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
||1911: The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.


||1912: The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
||1912: The ill-fated RMS ''Titanic'' begins sea trials.


||1915: Donald J. Hughes born ... nuclear physicist, chiefly notable as one of the signers of the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II. No Pic.
File:Donald_J._Hughes.png|link=Donald J. Hughes (nonfiction)|1915: Nuclear physicist [[Donald J. Hughes (nonfiction)|Donald J. Hughes]] born. Hughes will be one of the signers of the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.


||1917: World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
||1917: World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

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  • 1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. De Houtman will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.

    1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. De Houtman will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.

  • 1618: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi born. Grimaldi, along with Riccioli, will investigate the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.

    1618: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi born. Grimaldi, along with Riccioli, will investigate the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.

  • 1872: Painter and inventor Samuel Morse dies. Morse co-invented the Morse code.

    1872: Painter and inventor Samuel Morse dies. Morse co-invented the Morse code.

  • 1898: Mathematician Chiungtze C. Tsen born. Tsen will prove Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1).

    1898: Mathematician Chiungtze C. Tsen born. Tsen will prove Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1).

  • 1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. Tschichold will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.

    1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. Tschichold will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.

  • 1915: Nuclear physicist Donald J. Hughes born. Hughes will be one of the signers of the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.

    1915: Nuclear physicist Donald J. Hughes born. Hughes will be one of the signers of the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.

  • 1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."

    1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."

  • 1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. Spencer-Brown will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

    1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. Spencer-Brown will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

  • 1976: Mathematician, checkers player, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Marion Tinsley visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he plays checkers against several well-known criminal mathematical functions, including Gnotilus and Killer Poke. Tinsley easily defeats all of his opponents, calling them "lightweights and wanna-bees".

    1976: Mathematician, checkers player, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Marion Tinsley visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he plays checkers against several well-known criminal mathematical functions, including Gnotilus and Killer Poke. Tinsley easily defeats all of his opponents, calling them "lightweights and wanna-bees".

  • 2004: Computer scientist, engineer, and academic John Argyris dies. Argyris pioneered the use of computer applications in science and engineering, was among the creators of the finite element method.

    2004: Computer scientist, engineer, and academic John Argyris dies. Argyris pioneered the use of computer applications in science and engineering, was among the creators of the finite element method.

  • 2016: Pink City voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2016: Pink City voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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