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||1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington. | ||1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington. | ||
||1844 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1906) | ||1844 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1906) Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts how the properties of atoms (such as mass, charge, and structure) determine the physical properties of matter (such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion). | ||
||1872 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City. | ||1872 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City. | ||
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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.