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||1882: Traian Lalescu born ... mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. Pic. | ||1882: Traian Lalescu born ... mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. Pic. | ||
||1895: Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller born . | File:Buckminster Fuller as a young man.jpg|link=Buckminster Fuller (nonfiction)|1895: Polymath [[Buckminster Fuller (nonfiction)|Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller]] born. Fuller was, among other things, an architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist. | ||
||1896: Giulio Ascoli dies ... mathematician. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=giulio+ascoli | ||1896: Giulio Ascoli dies ... mathematician. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=giulio+ascoli | ||
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1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1895: Polymath Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller born. Fuller was, among other things, an architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1922: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
2017: The San Pietro scrying engine, among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process Spirograph data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing.
