Events
2002 - The last successful telemetry from NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
Births
1755 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician
1791 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor
1820 - Herbert Spencer, English philosopher and social evolutionist
1913 - Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician
1927 - Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher
Deaths
1936 - Karl Pearson, English statistician and biometrician
1952 - Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician
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1678 - Jean Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist
The 12-15th centuries are reckoned as Sweden's Middle Ages.
This quote comes to me from a pal who saw it on TV (there are days when I wish I had a TV, and today is one of those days, because this quote is priceless) ...
This sounds like it's got to be a spoof, but it's so weird it could also be true.