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||Ernst Julius Cohen (d. March 6, 1944) was a Dutch Jewish chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals. Pic. | ||Ernst Julius Cohen (d. March 6, 1944) was a Dutch Jewish chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals. Pic. | ||
||1951 | ||1951: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. | ||
||Edgar Krahn | ||1961: Edgar Krahn dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1967 | ||1967: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. | ||
||Ivan Emanuel Wallin | ||1969: Ivan Emanuel Wallin dies ... biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory. Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man" | ||
||1970 | ||1970: An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three. | ||
||1975 | ||1975: For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. | ||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1981: Modern dance company [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the life of [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]]. | File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1981: Modern dance company [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the life of [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]]. | ||
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File:Ayn Rand signature 1949.svg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|1982: Writer and philosopher [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] dies. | File:Ayn Rand signature 1949.svg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|1982: Writer and philosopher [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] dies. | ||
||1992 | ||1992: The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. | ||
||2005 | ||2005: Hans Albrecht Bethe dies ... nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. | ||
|| | File:Superimposed Fraunhofer.jpg|link=Superimposed Fraunhofer|2006: Steganographic analysis of the [[Superimposed Fraunhofer]] stamp reveals "seven hundred to eight hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions related to [[Color (nonfiction)|color]]. These functions will quickly find application in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against light]]. | ||
File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2015: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe, having left Vesta, enters Ceres' orbit. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt. | File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2015: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe, having left Vesta, enters Ceres' orbit. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt. | ||
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1665: The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
1846: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess warns the United States of America not to begin its upcoming Civil War ahead of schedule.
1847: Mathematician Cesare Arzelà born. He will contribute to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.
1876: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes uses continued fraction theory to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1939: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1981: Modern dance company Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the life of Ayn Rand.
1982: Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand dies.
2006: Steganographic analysis of the Superimposed Fraunhofer stamp reveals "seven hundred to eight hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions related to color. These functions will quickly find application in the detection and prevention of crimes against light.
2017: The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling awarded Pulitzer Prize, declared "the most entertaining illustration of the year."
2018: Signed first edition of Green Sprouts used in high-energy literature experiments spontaneously develops artificial intelligence.
