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||1915: Elling Bolt Holst dies ... mathematician, biographer and children's writer. | ||1915: Elling Bolt Holst dies ... mathematician, biographer and children's writer. | ||
||1923: René Thom born ... mathematician, biologist, and academic. | ||1923: René Thom born ... mathematician, biologist, and academic. PIc. | ||
File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and crimefighter [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] publishes new theory of combinatory logic which uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and crimefighter [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] publishes new theory of combinatory logic which uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1948: Archaeologist and spy [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death. | File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1948: Archaeologist and spy [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death. | ||
||1954: Fritz Wolfgang London dies ... physicist and professor at Duke University. His fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces (London dispersion forces) are today considered classic and are discussed in standard textbooks of physical chemistry. With his brother Heinz London, he made a significant contribution to understanding electromagnetic properties of superconductors with the London equations. Pic. | |||
||1960: Frederick John Marrian Strattondies ... astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer. Cool pic. | ||1960: Frederick John Marrian Strattondies ... astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer. Cool pic. | ||
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||1963: CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes. | ||1963: CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes. | ||
||1970: Joseph | ||1970: Joseph Wenger dies ... Rear-Admiral of the United States Navy who served as the first Deputy Director of the Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), and later as the first Vice Director of the National Security Agency, from December 1952 to November 1953, after the separate divisions of the AFSA merged into the NSA. Wenger was one of the leaders responsible for the development of the NSA. Pic. | ||
||1987: In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May. | ||1987: In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May. | ||
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1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.
1808: Carl Friedrich Gauss writes Wolfgang Bolyai: "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1947: Mathematician and crimefighter Haskell Curry publishes new theory of combinatory logic which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.
1999: Signed first edition of The Eel Escapes Hydrolab sells for one and a half million dollars.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for two million dollars.
