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||1894: Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones born ... mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He may be regarded as the initiator of modern computational chemistry. | ||1894: Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones born ... mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He may be regarded as the initiator of modern computational chemistry. | ||
||1902: SS Ventnor sinks off New Zealand, leading to the deaths of 13 crew and the loss of 499 bodies of gold miners which were being repatriated to southern China. This led to the end of the practice of exhuming and returning human remains, en masse, to China from New Zealand. Pics. | |||
||1904: The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. | ||1904: The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. | ||
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1654: Blaise Pascal writes to Pierre de Fermat, praising him for his solution to the Problem of the Points, about which they had exchanged seven previous letters.
1675: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1678: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort born. He will write Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which will introduce the combinatorial study of derangements.
1853: Mark Twains interviews Wallace War-Heels. Twain will later call it "the interview of a lifetime."
1854: Physician Golding Bird dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1995: Richard Smalley uses carbon nanotubes to detect and prevent crimes against chemical constants.
2016: Tractor voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers Mariner 9, which was switched off forty-five years ago.
