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||1987: Bill Holman dies ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||1987: Bill Holman dies ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||
||1989: Astronomer and educator Paul Oswald Ahnert dies. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Paul+Oswald+Ahnert | |||
||1997: Kingsley Davis dies ... sociologist and demographer who was a world-renowned expert on population trends; he coined the terms population explosion and zero population growth and promoted methods of bringing the latter about. His specific studies of American society led him to work on a general science of world society, based on empirical analysis of each society in its habitat. Later, however, he came to be concerned about low birthrates in developed countries, fearing a shortage of educated leaders. Pic: https://www.sociosite.net/sociologists/davis_kingsley.php | ||1997: Kingsley Davis dies ... sociologist and demographer who was a world-renowned expert on population trends; he coined the terms population explosion and zero population growth and promoted methods of bringing the latter about. His specific studies of American society led him to work on a general science of world society, based on empirical analysis of each society in its habitat. Later, however, he came to be concerned about low birthrates in developed countries, fearing a shortage of educated leaders. Pic: https://www.sociosite.net/sociologists/davis_kingsley.php | ||
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||2009: John William Wrench, Jr. dies ... mathematician who worked primarily in numerical analysis. He was a pioneer in using computers for mathematical calculations, and is noted for work done with Daniel Shanks to calculate the mathematical constant pi to 100,000 decimal places. Pic search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+W.+Wrench%2C+Jr. | ||2009: John William Wrench, Jr. dies ... mathematician who worked primarily in numerical analysis. He was a pioneer in using computers for mathematical calculations, and is noted for work done with Daniel Shanks to calculate the mathematical constant pi to 100,000 decimal places. Pic search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+W.+Wrench%2C+Jr. | ||
||2014: Aaron Allston dies ... game designer and author. | ||2014: Aaron Allston dies ... game designer and author. Pic. | ||
File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of love letters between [[Alice Beta]] and [[Niles Cartouchian]]. | File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of love letters between [[Alice Beta]] and [[Niles Cartouchian]]. | ||
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1670: First known use of Pascal's calculator in high-energy literature experiments.
1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.
1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter Red Eyes defeats gang of physics criminals in close-quarters combat.
1869: Physician, research scientist, and author Alice Hamilton born. She will be a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
1870: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil generate new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1881: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer born. He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of love letters between Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.
2018: Two Creatures 6 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.