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File:John Atanasov.gif|link=John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic [[John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|John Vincent Atanasoff]] dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.
File:John Atanasov.gif|link=John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic [[John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|John Vincent Atanasoff]] dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.
||Alessandro Faedo (d. 15 June 2001) (also known as Alessandro Carlo Faedo or Sandro Faedo) was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo. He is known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university.


||2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.
||2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.

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  • 763 BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

    763 BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

  • 1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis.

    1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis.

  • 1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

    1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

  • 1939: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel helps break German military codes using surf-powered gnomon algorithm techniques.

    1939: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel helps break German military codes using surf-powered gnomon algorithm techniques.

  • 1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

    1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

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