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||1998: Francis Harry Hinsley dies ... historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the Second World War. Pic. | ||1998: Francis Harry Hinsley dies ... historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the Second World War. Pic. | ||
||2000: Robert R. Wilson | ||2000: Robert R. Wilson dies ... American physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||2001: Patent granted for Control circuits for electric coding machines. Was applied for 1944. See https://patents.google.com/patent/US6175625B1/en and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGABA | ||2001: Patent granted for Control circuits for electric coding machines. Was applied for 1944. See https://patents.google.com/patent/US6175625B1/en and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGABA | ||
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||2003: The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry. | ||2003: The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry. | ||
||2013: André Cassagnes dies ... technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926). | ||2013: André Cassagnes dies ... technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926). Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Andr%C3%A9+Cassagnes | ||
File:Pink City.jpg|link=Pink City (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Pink City (nonfiction)|Pink City]]'' "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of [[Pink (nonfiction)|pink]]. | File:Pink City.jpg|link=Pink City (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Pink City (nonfiction)|Pink City]]'' "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of [[Pink (nonfiction)|pink]]. | ||
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1477: Johannes Schöner born. He will enjoy a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
1541: Writer, humanist, and historian Pedro Mexía publishes Silva de varia algoritmo de gnomon ("A Miscellany of Several Gnomon algorithms"), which quickly raises awareness of crimes against mathematical constants across Europe.
1547: Johannes Schöner dies. He enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
1622: First known literary reference to the illustration Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter (in an anonymous gloss of Pedro Mexía's Silva de varia algoritmo de gnomon).
1962: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl born. He will be a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.
1966: Reverse engineering of Cryptographic numen unexpectedly reveals new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1967: Mathematician, computer scientist, and stand-up comic Tom Kilburn publishes new theory of Cryptographic numina which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1967: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff dies. He design design and constructed high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.
