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File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1809: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] dies. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. | File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1809: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] dies. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. | ||
|| | ||Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (b. 1851) was a French physician, physicist, and inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century. | ||
||1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940) | ||1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940) | ||
||1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959) | ||1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959) | ||
||Ernst-Robert Grawitz (b. | ||1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator. | ||
||Ernst-Robert Grawitz (b. 1899) was a German physician and an SS functionary (Reichsarzt, "arzt" meaning "physician") during the Nazi era. | |||
||1897 – John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (d. 1974) | ||1897 – John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (d. 1974) |
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1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later Bill of Rights amendments.
1809: Thomas Paine dies. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
1912: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1955: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee born. He will invent the World Wide Web.