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||1831 – Nat Turner witnesses a solar eclipse which caused the sky to appear a blue-green color, which he envisioned as a black man's hand reaching over the sun. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill between 55-65 whites in Southampton County, Virginia. | ||1831 – Nat Turner witnesses a solar eclipse which caused the sky to appear a blue-green color, which he envisioned as a black man's hand reaching over the sun. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill between 55-65 whites in Southampton County, Virginia. | ||
||Herbert Hall Turner FRS (b. 13 August 1861) was a British astronomer and seismologist. | |||
File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1863: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists. | File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1863: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists. | ||
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1863: Artist Eugène Delacroix dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
1899: Mathematician, economist, and crime-fighter Joseph Louis François Bertrand publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which predict and prevent economic crimes against mathematical constants.
1903: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet born. He will make seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.
1941: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the Manhattan Project.
1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
2017: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem, predicts emergence of crimes against mathematical constants.