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||1991: Nicaraguan Contra leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. | ||1991: Nicaraguan Contra leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. | ||
||1997: Chien-Shiung Wu | File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1997: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] dies. She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved. | ||
||1997: Leon Bankoff dies ... dentist, mathematician and Esperantist. He was responsible for the publication of some 300 top problems in the area of plane geometry, particularly Morley's trisector theorem, and the arbelos of Archimedes. | ||1997: Leon Bankoff dies ... dentist, mathematician and Esperantist. He was responsible for the publication of some 300 top problems in the area of plane geometry, particularly Morley's trisector theorem, and the arbelos of Archimedes. Among his discoveries with the arbelos was the Bankoff circle, which is equal in area to Archimedes' twin circles. Pic: http://math.fau.edu/yiu/AEG2013/BankoffCMJ.pdf | ||
||1999: Herbert (Bert) Sydney Green dies ... physicist. Green was a doctoral student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born at Edinburgh, with whom he was involved in the development of the modern kinetic theory. Green is the letter "G" in the BBGKY hierarchy. Pic. | ||1999: Herbert (Bert) Sydney Green dies ... physicist. Green was a doctoral student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born at Edinburgh, with whom he was involved in the development of the modern kinetic theory. Green is the letter "G" in the BBGKY hierarchy. Pic. | ||
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1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1698: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer born. He will be known as "the father of naval architecture".
1754: Physician and astrologer Richard Mead dies. His work, A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it (1720), was of historic importance in the understanding of transmissible diseases.
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1852: The Orcagna scrying engine discovers "at least two megabytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions from the lost work of Abū Sahl al-Qūhī.
1922: Mathematician Hing Tong born. He will provide the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
1960: Mathematician and crime-fighter The Eel (left) stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter (right) from infiltrating Operation Sandblast, the U.S. Navy submarine circumnavigation of the globe.
1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1979: Mathematician and crime-fighter Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use combinatorial number logic to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1997: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu dies. She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.