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||1849: Lou Blonger born ... Wild West saloonkeeper, gambling-house owner, and mine speculator, but is best known as the kingpin of an extensive ring of confidence tricksters that operated for more than 25 years in Denver, Colorado. His "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" was brought to justice in a famous trial in 1923. Pic. | |||
||1857: Ronald Ross born ... physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1857: Ronald Ross born ... physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1733: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus invents a binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy to define and characterize a wide range of crimes against mathematical constants.
1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or yesterday.
1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1936: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."
1937: Writer Roger Zelazny born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1939: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician Stanisław Leśniewski dies. He posited three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.