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File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1882: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]]'s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1882: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]]'s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. | ||
||Otto Yulyevich Schmidt (b. September 30 [O.S. September 18] 1891) was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician, Hero of the USSR (27 June 1937), and member of the Communist Party. | |||
||1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996) | ||1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996) |
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1550: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin born. He will be a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and play a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.
1881: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1882: Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
Artificial intelligence based on the Golden ratio develops genuine gratitude for Michael Maestlin's approximation of the Golden ratio.
2017: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins three Retroactive Academy Awards for Lifetime Achievement.