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||1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro. | ||1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro. | ||
||Robert von Lieben (b. February 20, 1913) was a notable Austrian physicist. Pic. | |||
||1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign. | ||1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign. | ||
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1771: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan dies. His observations and experiments inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.
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.