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||1724: John Smeaton born ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge. EXISTS - Pic. | ||1724: John Smeaton born ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge. EXISTS - Pic. | ||
||1745: Caspar Wessel born ... mathematician and cartographer. | ||1745: Caspar Wessel born ... mathematician and cartographer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=caspar+wessel | ||
File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|Bill of Rights]] amendments. | File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|Bill of Rights]] amendments. |
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1625: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini born. He will discover four satellites of the planet Saturn and note the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division will be named after him.
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.
1887: Inventor Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', his punched card calculator.
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.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Green Sprouts reveals "over three hundred and fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.