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||1830: U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. Pic. | ||1830: U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. Pic. | ||
||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic. | ||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic. | ||
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||1858: Carl Richard Nyberg born ... inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch. | ||1858: Carl Richard Nyberg born ... inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch. | ||
||1872: Marian Smoluchowski born ... physicist and mountaineer. | ||1872: Marian Smoluchowski born ... physicist and mountaineer. Pic. | ||
||1879: Milutin Milanković born ... mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist. He gave two fundamental contributions to global science. The first contribution is the "Canon of the Earth’s Insolation", which characterizes the climates of all the planets of the Solar system. The second contribution is the explanation of Earth's long-term climate changes caused by changes in the position of the Earth in comparison to the Sun, now known as Milankovitch cycles. Pic. | ||1879: Milutin Milanković born ... mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist. He gave two fundamental contributions to global science. The first contribution is the "Canon of the Earth’s Insolation", which characterizes the climates of all the planets of the Solar system. The second contribution is the explanation of Earth's long-term climate changes caused by changes in the position of the Earth in comparison to the Sun, now known as Milankovitch cycles. Pic. | ||
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1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1974: Euglena Junction wins the Prime Time Emmy for Best New Show. Broadcasting live from the Pantages Theater via NBC, host Johnny Carson calls it "an extraordinary study of the genus Euglena, and a brilliant parody of Petticoat Junction."
2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.
2016: Signed first edition of Ringmaster stolen from the Guggenheim by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.