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||988: Dunstan | ||988: Dunstan dies ... was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London, and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. Patron saint of: blacksmiths; Charlottetown, Canada; goldsmiths; locksmiths; musicians; silversmiths; bellringers. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1637: Isaac Beeckman dies ... scientist and philosopher. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=isaac+beeckman | ||1637: Isaac Beeckman dies ... scientist and philosopher. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=isaac+beeckman | ||
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||1762: Johann Gottlieb Fichte born ... philosopher and academic. Pic. | ||1762: Johann Gottlieb Fichte born ... philosopher and academic. Pic. | ||
||1773: Arthur Aikin born ... chemist and mineralogist. | ||1773: Arthur Aikin born ... chemist and mineralogist. Pic. | ||
||1780: New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada. | ||1780: New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada. | ||
||1857: John Jacob Abel born .. | ||1857: Biochemist and pharmacologist John Jacob Abel born. Abel will contribute to the development of an early form of dialysis machine, and discover how to isolate and crystallize insulin. Pic. | ||
File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1883: Signed first edition of ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' stolen. It will later be recovered by [[Niles Cartouchian]] and returned to the Smithsonian Museum. | File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1883: Signed first edition of ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' stolen. It will later be recovered by [[Niles Cartouchian]] and returned to the Smithsonian Museum. | ||
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1743: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The "Thermometer of Lyon" will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design.
1883: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels stolen. It will later be recovered by Niles Cartouchian and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.
1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will publish work on tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.
1954: Computer programmer Jean Bartik discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
1971: The Soviet Union launches the Mars 2 spacecraft. The spacecraft will reach Mars, but the landing module will crash after failing to deploy its parachute.
1979: New analysis of the Petrozavodsk phenomenon using Gnomon algorithm techniques reveals traces of the transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine, Prima facie evidence of felony-grade math crimes under the APTO Accords.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 launch, observing a moment of silence for the failure of the mission.
2018: Three Kings 2 voted Picture of the Day by the Citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.