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1861: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem born. He will write: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1950: Dalton Trumbo photographed by authorities.
2018: Signed first edition of Green Ring 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.

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 ||AD 68: Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
-||1768: Samuel Slater born ... industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" (a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson) and the "Father of the American Factory System." In the UK, he was called "Slater the Traitor" because he brought British textile technology to America, modifying it for United States use.
+||1717: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon dies ... mystic. Pic.
+||1768: Samuel Slater born ... industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" (a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson) and the "Father of the American Factory System." In the UK, he was called "Slater the Traitor" because he brought British textile technology to America, modifying it for United States use. Pic.
 ||1781: George Stephenson born ... engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.