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||699: En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima. | ||699: En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima. | ||
||1274: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi dies ... scientist and writer ( | ||1274: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi dies ... scientist and writer. Pic (postage stamp). | ||
||1541: Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. | ||1541: Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. | ||
||1694: Georg Brandt born ... chemist and mineralogist | ||1694: Georg Brandt born ... chemist and mineralogist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=georg+brandt | ||
File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1730: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]] born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects". | File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1730: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]] born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects". | ||
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1730: Astronomer Charles Messier born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1823: Havelock announces plan to collaborate with David Rittenhouse and Lord Kelvin on building an orrery which models the heat death of the universe.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1850: Mathematician and crime-fighter Carl Wilhelm Borchardt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use arithmetic-geometric mean theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1913: Computer scientist and physicist Maurice Wilkes born. He will pioneer several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing.
2016: Swirl is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.