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File:Jan Kochanowski.png|link=Jan Kochanowski (nonfiction)|1854: [[Jan Kochanowski (nonfiction)|Poet Jan Kochanowski]] dies. He established poetic patterns which would become integral to the Polish literary language. | File:Jan Kochanowski.png|link=Jan Kochanowski (nonfiction)|1854: [[Jan Kochanowski (nonfiction)|Poet Jan Kochanowski]] dies. He established poetic patterns which would become integral to the Polish literary language. | ||
||1860: Paul Gottlieb Nipkow born ... | ||1860: Paul Gottlieb Nipkow born ... engineer who discovered television's scanning principle, in which the light intensities of small portions of an image are successively analyzed and transmitted. Nipkow's invented (1884) a rotating disk (Nipkow disk) with one or more spirals of apertures that passed successively across the picture to make a mechanically scanned television system. Pic. | ||
||1860: Alfred Ploetz born ... physician, biologist, and eugenicist. | ||1860: Alfred Ploetz born ... physician, biologist, and eugenicist. | ||
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1854: Poet Jan Kochanowski dies. He established poetic patterns which would become integral to the Polish literary language.
1919: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Johannes Diderik van der Waals publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants based on the states of gases and liquids.
1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury born. The New York Times will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
1943: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC traded for freshly minted 1943 Eleanor Roosevelt dime.
1974: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski dies.
1975: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on time-series analysis and Bayesian inference, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.