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||1854 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1919) | ||1854 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1919) | ||
||George Peacock (d. 8 November 1858) was an English mathematician. | |||
||1861 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. | ||1861 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. | ||
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1703: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1839: Birth of Ivan Goremykin heralds new age of Extreme Moustaches.
1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1974: Green Ring tells Dick Cavett a funny story about Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography.