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1869May, 30

Grace Andrews (mathematician)

Grace Andrews, American mathematician (d. 1951)
Grace Andrews (May 30, 1869 – July 27, 1951) was an American mathematician. She, along with Charlotte Angas Scott, was one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science, which appeared in 1906.

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Events on 1869

  • 6Mar

    Periodic table

    Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
  • 28Apr

    First Transcontinental Railroad

    Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
  • 15May

    Susan B. Anthony

    Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
  • 17Nov

    Suez Canal

    In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
  • 22Nov

    Clipper

    In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched and is one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.