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||1992: In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison. | ||1992: In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison. | ||
||1995: Hannes Alfvén dies ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1995: Hannes Alfvén dies ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2002: John R. Pierce dies ... engineer and author ... TV radio sound. Pic (cool). | ||2002: John R. Pierce dies ... engineer and author ... TV radio sound. Pic (cool). | ||
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||2002: Robert Lawson Vaught dies ... mathematical logician, and one of the founders of model theory. Pic. | ||2002: Robert Lawson Vaught dies ... mathematical logician, and one of the founders of model theory. Pic. | ||
||2004: | |link=John Argyris (nonfiction)|2004: Computer scientist, engineer, and academic [[John Argyris (nonfiction)|John Argyris]] dies. | ||
||2007: Henry L. Giclas dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||2007: Henry L. Giclas dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||
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1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1615: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei teams up with orbital artificial intelligence AESOP to stop crimes against the ionosphere.
1618: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi born. Working with Riccioli, he will investigate the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.
1872: Painter and inventor Samuel Morse dies. He co-invented the Morse code.
1898: Mathematician Chiungtze C. Tsen born. He will prove Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1).
1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.
1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."
1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. He will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
1976: Mathematician, checkers player, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Marion Tinsley visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he plays checkers against several well-known criminal mathematical functions, including Gnotilus and Killer Poke. Tinsley easily defeats all of his opponents, calling them "lightweights and wanna-bees".
2016: Pink City voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.