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||1866 – Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) | ||1866 – Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) | ||
||Theodore Willard Case (b. December 12, 1888) was an American chemist, physicist, and inventor known for the invention of the Movietone sound-on-film sound film system. Pic. | |||
||1889 – Viktor Bunyakovsky, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1804) | ||1889 – Viktor Bunyakovsky, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1804) |
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1204: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides dies.
1685: Mathematician John Pell dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão's uses Gnomon algorithm to communicate with John Pell.
1862: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
1921: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1994: Diagram of public-key cryptography generation sell for 1.7 million dollars.