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||1879 – Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960) | ||1879 – Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960) | ||
||Heinrich Adolph Louis Behnke (b. 9 October 1898) was a German mathematician | |||
||1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor, invented the bendy straw (d. 1982) | ||1900 – Joseph Friedman, American inventor, invented the bendy straw (d. 1982) | ||
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1581: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac born. He will do work in number theory and find a method of constructing magic squares.
1582: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin uses Copernican system of the solar system to predict imminent outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
1859: Alfred Dreyfus born. He will be wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
1903: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1918: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt born. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt will plot the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.
2017: Artificial intelligence based on the Golden ratio develops genuine gratitude for Michael Maestlin's approximation of the Golden ratio.
