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||1911: Shizuo Kakutani born ... mathematician, best known for his eponymous fixed-point theorem. Pic. | ||1911: Shizuo Kakutani born ... mathematician, best known for his eponymous fixed-point theorem. Pic. | ||
File: | File:Charles Wright Mills.jpg|link=C. Wright Mills (nonfiction)|1916: Sociologist and author [[C. Wright Mills (nonfiction)|C. Wright Mills]] born. He will be published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation. | ||
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413 BC: A lunar eclipse caused panic among the sailors of the Athens fleet and thus affected the outcome of a crucial battle in the Peloponnesian War. The Athenians were ready to withdraw their forces from Syracuse when the Moon was eclipsed, but the eclipse caused the superstitious Athenian general Nicias to delay their departure. This delay gave an advantage to their enemies, the Syracusans, who then defeated the entire Athenian fleet and army, and killed Nicias.
1801: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot born. He will introduce the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1916: Sociologist and author C. Wright Mills born. He will be published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation.
1966: New study reveals that the Brainiac Explains lecture series is funded by a Brownian racket.
2019: Signed first edition of Three Kings sells for an undisclosed amount to "a couple, both eminent Gnomon algorithm theorists and long-time residents of New Minneapolis, Canada."