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||1962: The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at London's Marquee Club. | ||1962: The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at London's Marquee Club. | ||
||1983: Ernst Gabor Straus dies ... mathematician who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Straus.html | |||
||1985: Herbert John Ryser dies ... professor of mathematics, widely regarded as one of the major figures in combinatorics in the 20th century. He is the namesake of the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem and Ryser's formula for the computation of the permanent of a matrix. Pic. | ||1985: Herbert John Ryser dies ... professor of mathematics, widely regarded as one of the major figures in combinatorics in the 20th century. He is the namesake of the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem and Ryser's formula for the computation of the permanent of a matrix. Pic. | ||
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1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1922: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
2017: The San Pietro scrying engine, among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process Spirograph data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing.
