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||1945: Boris Galerkin dies ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to the finite element method, which is a way to numerically solve partial differential equations. The Galerkin method approximates the solution to a problem in weak form. Pic. | ||1945: Boris Galerkin dies ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to the finite element method, which is a way to numerically solve partial differential equations. The Galerkin method approximates the solution to a problem in weak form. Pic. | ||
||1959: Sodium Reactor Experiment: Beginning of Run 14, which will almost immediately encounter an escalating series of problem which will lead to a reactor shutdown due to fuel rod melting. | |||
||1962: The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at London's Marquee Club. | ||1962: The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at London's Marquee Club. | ||
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1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1895: Polymath Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller born. Fuller was, among other things, an architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1922: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
2017: The San Pietro scrying engine, among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process Spirograph data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing.
