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File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1929: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] calls [[Gene Krupa (nonfiction)|Gene Krupa]] "the most brilliant young drummer of his generation." | File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1929: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] calls [[Gene Krupa (nonfiction)|Gene Krupa]] "the most brilliant young drummer of his generation." | ||
||1946: Arthur James Arnot born ... electrical engineer and inventor, best known for patenting the world's first electric drill. He later designed the Spencer Street Power Station, Victoria. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=arthur+james+arnot | |||
||1951: Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives. | ||1951: Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives. | ||
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||1956: Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. | ||1956: Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. | ||
||1958: Elizabeth Alexander dies ... British geologist, academic, and physicist. | ||1958: Elizabeth Alexander dies ... British geologist, academic, and physicist. Pic. | ||
||1959: Lipót Fejér dies ... mathematician and academic | ||1959: Lipót Fejér dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|George Cantor]]. | File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|George Cantor]]. | ||
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1608: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles.
1609: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei discovers secret math crime gang in the Vatican, vows to "see them all hang."
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks for the second time, killing all eight of her second crew, including Horace Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not a member of the Confederate military.
1929: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein calls Gene Krupa "the most brilliant young drummer of his generation."
1965: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of George Cantor.
2015: Pink City voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.