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||1875 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (d. 1953) | ||1875 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (d. 1953) | ||
||Reinhold Rudenberg (or Rüdenberg; b. February 4, 1883) was a German-American electrical engineer and inventor, credited with many innovations in the electric power and related fields. | |||
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1889: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to manipulate the royal family. | File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1889: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to manipulate the royal family. |
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1889: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to manipulate the royal family.
1902: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.
1906: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.
1923: Mathematician Karl Menger uses scrying engine techniques to attend virtual lecture by Donald Knuth.
1928: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
1994: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.