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||1875: Gérard Paul Deshayes dies ... geologist and conchologist. Pic search limited: https://www.google.com/search?q=Gérard+Paul+Deshayes Pic book cover: https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12459618/gerard-paul_deshayes/ | ||1875: Gérard Paul Deshayes dies ... geologist and conchologist. Pic search limited: https://www.google.com/search?q=Gérard+Paul+Deshayes Pic book cover: https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12459618/gerard-paul_deshayes/ | ||
||1885: Mathematician John Edensor Littlewood born. He will contribute to analysis, number theory, and differential equations; and will be remembered for his long collaboration with G. H. Hardy. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+edensor+littlewood | ||1885: Mathematician John Edensor Littlewood born. He will contribute to analysis, number theory, and differential equations; and will be remembered for his long collaboration with G. H. Hardy. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+edensor+littlewood | ||
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File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|1950: [[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] photographed by authorities. | File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|1950: [[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] photographed by authorities. | ||
||1954: McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" | File:Welch-McCarthy Hearings.jpg|link=McCarthyism (nonfiction)|1954: [[McCarthyism (nonfiction)|McCarthyism]]: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" | ||
||1959: The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. | ||1959: The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. | ||
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1861: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem born. He will write: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1950: Dalton Trumbo photographed by authorities.
1954: McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
2018: Signed first edition of Green Ring 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.