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||1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942) | ||1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942) | ||
File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1881: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms. | |||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1882: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]]'s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1882: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]]'s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. | ||
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||1999 – The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident. | ||1999 – The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident. | ||
File: | File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' wins three Retroactive Academy Awards for Lifetime Achievement. | ||
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1550: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin born. He will be a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and play a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.
1881: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1882: Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
2017: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins three Retroactive Academy Awards for Lifetime Achievement.