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||1936: Mathematician and academic Emilie Norton Martin dies. She researched primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18. Pic (nice). | ||1936: Mathematician and academic Emilie Norton Martin dies. She researched primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18. Pic (nice). | ||
||1942: Fritz Todt dies ... engineer and politician ... German construction engineer, senior Nazi, who rose from "Inspector General for German Roadways" where he directed the construction of German Autobahnen (Reichsautobahnen) to Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition where he directed the entire war military economy. At the beginning of World War II he initiated what Hitler named Organisation Todt, a military engineering company, which supplied industry with forced labor and administered all constructions of concentration camps in the late phase of Nazi Germany. Pic. | |||
||1945: Julius Wolff dies ... mathematician, known for the Denjoy–Wolff theorem and for his boundary version of the Schwarz lemma. Pic. | ||1945: Julius Wolff dies ... mathematician, known for the Denjoy–Wolff theorem and for his boundary version of the Schwarz lemma. Pic. | ||
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||1945: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111. | ||1945: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111. | ||
||1946: Felix Hoffmann dies ... chemist notable for re-synthesizing diamorphine (independently from C.R. Alder Wright who synthesized it 23 years earlier), which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "heroin". | ||1946: Felix Hoffmann dies ... chemist notable for re-synthesizing diamorphine (independently from C.R. Alder Wright who synthesized it 23 years earlier), which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "heroin". Pic. | ||
||1950: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. | ||1950: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established. | ||
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1700: Mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli born. He will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
1866: Chemist Moses Gomberg born. He will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.
1867: Didacus automaton develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1879: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1933: Carnivorous dirigibles found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations.
1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann dies. He was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
1973: Physicist, engineer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Dennis Gabor invents new form of holography which detects and prevents crimes against light.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Triumph reveals "at least four thousand and ninety-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.