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||1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen. | ||1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen. | ||
||Stanisław Ruziewicz (b. 29 August 1889) was a Polish mathematician and one of the founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics. The Ruziewicz problem, asking whether the Lebesgue measure on the sphere may be characterized by certain of its properties, is named after Ruziewicz. Pic. | |||
||Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels (d. 29 August 1913) | ||Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels (d. 29 August 1913) |
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1651: Scientist, inventor, and crime-fighter Christopher Polhem demonstrates water-powered automaton which detects and prevents crimes against geology.
1780: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks during a test run, killing five members of her crew.
2011: Cryptographic analysis of Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research reveals five terabytes of previously unknown encrypted data.
2012: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi dies. He worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.
2017: Concentrated sample of carbon-14 accidentally exposed to unfiltered Extract of Radium, causing a wave of crimes against mathematical constants.