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||1729: Giacomo F. Maraldi dies ... astronomer and mathematician. ... discovery ... the ice caps on Mars are not exactly on the rotational poles of that body. Maraldi is also credited for the first observation (1723) of what is usually referred to as Poisson's spot, an observation that was unrecognized until its rediscovery in the early 19th century by Dominique Arago. At the time of Arago's discovery, Poisson's spot gave convincing evidence for the contested wave nature of light. No pic online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Giacomo+F.+Maraldi
||1729: Giacomo F. Maraldi dies ... astronomer and mathematician. ... discovery ... the ice caps on Mars are not exactly on the rotational poles of that body. Maraldi is also credited for the first observation (1723) of what is usually referred to as Poisson's spot, an observation that was unrecognized until its rediscovery in the early 19th century by Dominique Arago. At the time of Arago's discovery, Poisson's spot gave convincing evidence for the contested wave nature of light. No pic online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Giacomo+F.+Maraldi


||1743: Martin Heinrich Klaproth born ... chemist and academic.
||1743: Martin Heinrich Klaproth born ... chemist and academic ... discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803), and named titanium (1795) and tellurium (1798). Pic.


File:Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr.jpg|link=Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|1750: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer [[Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr]] dies. He published works on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes, along with biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers.
File:Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr.jpg|link=Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|1750: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer [[Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (nonfiction)|Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr]] dies. He published works on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes, along with biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers.


||1768: The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
||1768: The former slave ship ''Fredensborg'' sinks off Tromøy in Norway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredensborg_(slave_ship) Pic.


||1792: Nikolai Lobachevsky born ... mathematician and geometer. Pic.
||1792: Nikolai Lobachevsky born ... mathematician and geometer. Pic.
||1805: Hugh Hamilton dies ... mathematician, natural philosopher (scientist) and professor at Trinity College, Dublin, and later a Church of Ireland bishop, Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, and then Bishop of Ossory. Pic.


||1834: Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
||1834: Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

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  • 1750: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr dies. He published works on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes, along with biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers.

    1750: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr dies. He published works on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes, along with biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers.

  • 1910: Physicist Louis Slotin born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1910: Physicist Louis Slotin born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • 1947: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

    1947: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

  • 1947: Mathematician and crime-fighter L. E. J. Brouwer publishes new theory of complex analysis with application in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1947: Mathematician and crime-fighter L. E. J. Brouwer publishes new theory of complex analysis with application in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1947: Magician and author Aleister Crowley dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.

    1947: Magician and author Aleister Crowley dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.

  • 1948: Claude Lévi-Strauss new theory of Gnomon algorithm functions which argues that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.

    1948: Claude Lévi-Strauss new theory of Gnomon algorithm functions which argues that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.

  • 1964: Physicist, astronomer, and APTO field cosmologist Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich publishes his landmark study on advances in Gnomon algorithm theory with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against nuclear constants.

    1964: Physicist, astronomer, and APTO field cosmologist Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich publishes his landmark study on advances in Gnomon algorithm theory with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against nuclear constants.

  • 1969: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

    1969: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

  • 2003: Retrotemporal analysis of the proposed evil bit protocol accidentally causes an Evil bit release event.

    2003: Retrotemporal analysis of the proposed evil bit protocol accidentally causes an Evil bit release event.

  • 2004: Evil bit released a year ago celebrates its first year of freedom.

    2004: Evil bit released a year ago celebrates its first year of freedom.

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