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||1901 – René Dubos, French-American biologist and author (d. 1982) | ||1901 – René Dubos, French-American biologist and author (d. 1982) | ||
||1901 – Louis Kahn, American architect, designed the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum | ||1901 – Louis Kahn, American architect, designed the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum and the Bangladesh Parliament Building (d. 1974) | ||
and the Bangladesh Parliament Building (d. 1974) | |||
||1907 – Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) | ||1907 – Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) | ||
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1788: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.
1958: Project SCORE satellite equipped with Gnomon algorithm control system.
1973: John Brunner accuses Killer Poke of infecting "Hello World" program with Extract of Radium.
1986: The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
1987: New class of Fantasy Voronoi diagrams uses Gnomon algorithm to compute record-breaking profits.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.