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File:Jean Sylvain Bailly.jpg|link=Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|1736: Astronomer, mathematician, and politician [[Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|Jean Sylvain Bailly]] born. His work as an astronomer lead to his recognition and admiration by the European scientific community. | File:Jean Sylvain Bailly.jpg|link=Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|1736: Astronomer, mathematician, and politician [[Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|Jean Sylvain Bailly]] born. His work as an astronomer lead to his recognition and admiration by the European scientific community. | ||
||1852: Jan Ernest Matzeliger born ... inventor who is best known for his shoe-lasting machine that revolutionished the shoe industry by replacing the hand work of attaching the sole to the upper of a shoe. He left his homeland of Dutch Guiana and sailed for America at age 19. He settled in Lynn, Massachussetts, by about age 25, where he became a shoe stitching machine operator. There he saw the tedious and slow process of finishing the shoe by hand, and resolved to develop a machine able to do that job more efficiently. Despite being so poor that obtaining materials was difficult, he made a wooden model. He obtained a patent for his invention, issued on 20 Mar 1883. With improvements, by 1885, he had a production model ready, able to produce shoes far more rapidly than hand workers. He died of tuberculosis at the early age of not yet 37. Pic. | |||
||1857 – Anna Winlock, American astronomer and academic (d. 1904) | ||1857 – Anna Winlock, American astronomer and academic (d. 1904) | ||
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1736: Astronomer, mathematician, and politician Jean Sylvain Bailly born. His work as an astronomer lead to his recognition and admiration by the European scientific community.
1944: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the upcoming death of physicist and crime-fighter Harry Daghlian.
1945: Physicist Harry Daghlian dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1945: Extract of Radium distributor and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung uses the death of physicist and crime-fighter Harry Daghlian as a pretext for stealing the demon core.
1989: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm function.