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||1815 – Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician and anatomist (b. 1755) | ||1815 – Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician and anatomist (b. 1755) | ||
||Irénée-Jules Bienaymé (d. 19 October 1878), was a French statistician. He built on the legacy of Laplace generalizing his least squares method. He contributed to the fields of probability and statistics, and to their application to finance, demography and social sciences. In particular, he formulated the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality concerning the law of large numbers and the Bienaymé formula for the variance of a sum of uncorrelated random variables. Pic. | |||
||1897 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (d. 1994) | ||1897 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (d. 1994) | ||
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1900: Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.