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||1912: Sergei Nikolaevich Chernikov born ... mathematician who contributed significantly to the development of infinite group theory and linear inequalities. Pic. | ||1912: Sergei Nikolaevich Chernikov born ... mathematician who contributed significantly to the development of infinite group theory and linear inequalities. Pic. | ||
||1914: Haroun Tazieff born ... volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books on volcanoes. Pic. | |||
||1916: Karl Schwarzschild dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic. | ||1916: Karl Schwarzschild dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic. | ||
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868: A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
1610: Priest and mathematician Matteo Ricci dies. Ricci translated Euclid's Elements into Chinese, as well as the Confucian classics into Latin, for the first time.
1845: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Jacques Philippe Marie Binet publishes new theory of crimes against mathematical constants using fundamental principles of matrix algebra.
1858: Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
1903: Public outrage in response to the short film Electrocuting an Elephant triggers a worldwide outbreak of Scrimshaw abuse.
1918: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman born. Feynmann will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
2018: Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Spiral Rings 2 reveals "at least two hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.