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||1968: In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. | ||1968: In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. | ||
||1974: John Garand dies ... engineer, designed the M1 Garand rifle. Pic. | |||
||1976: Lyudmila Keldysh dies ... mathematician known for set theory and geometric topology. Pic: https://www.peoplemaven.com/p/8w2rB0/lyudmila-keldysh | ||1976: Lyudmila Keldysh dies ... mathematician known for set theory and geometric topology. Pic: https://www.peoplemaven.com/p/8w2rB0/lyudmila-keldysh | ||
||1977: Rózsa Péter dies ... mathematician. | ||1977: Rózsa Péter dies ... mathematician and logician. She is best known as the "founding mother of recursion theory". Pic. | ||
||1978: The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). | ||1978: The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). | ||
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1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1610: Regicide François Ravaillac drinks Extract of Radium for the first time.
1698: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer born. He will be known as "the father of naval architecture".
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1852: The Orcagna scrying engine discovers "at least two megabytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions from the lost work of Abū Sahl al-Qūhī.
1922: Mathematician Hing Tong born. He will provide the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
1960: Mathematician and crime-fighter The Eel (left) stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter (right) from infiltrating Operation Sandblast, the U.S. Navy submarine circumnavigation of the globe.
1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1979: Mathematician and crime-fighter Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use combinatorial number logic to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.