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||1936: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
||1936: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
||1937: Rudolf Wille born ... mathematician and was professor of General Algebra from 1970 to 2003 at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt). His most celebrated work is the invention of formal concept analysis, an unsupervised machine learning technique that applies mathematical lattice theory to organize data based on objects and their shared attributes. Pic.


||1936: The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
||1936: The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
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||1944: Thomas Midgley, Jr. dies ... Freon, CFC ... An instinct for the regrettable that is almost uncanny ... Doctor Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical engineer and chemist. He was a key figure in a team of chemists, led by Charles F. Kettering, that developed the tetraethyllead (TEL) additive to gasoline as well as some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
||1944: Thomas Midgley, Jr. dies ... Freon, CFC ... An instinct for the regrettable that is almost uncanny ... Doctor Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical engineer and chemist. He was a key figure in a team of chemists, led by Charles F. Kettering, that developed the tetraethyllead (TEL) additive to gasoline as well as some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).


||The Levelland UFO Case occurred on November 2–3, 1957 in and around the small town of Levelland, Texas.  
||1957: The Levelland UFO Case occurred on November 2–3, 1957 in and around the small town of Levelland, Texas.  


||1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
||1959: Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.


||1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
||1966: Peter Debye dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Abram Samoilovitch Besikovitch (d. 2 November 1970) was a Russian mathematician. He will work on combinatorial methods and questions in real analysis, such as the Kakeya needle problem and the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension.
||1970: Abram Samoilovitch Besikovitch dies ... mathematician. He will work on combinatorial methods and questions in real analysis, such as the Kakeya needle problem and the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension.


||István Fáry (d. 2 November 1984) was a Hungarian-born mathematician known for his work in geometry and algebraic topology. He proved Fáry's theorem that every planar graph has a straight line embedding in 1948, and the Fary–Milnor theorem lower-bounding the curvature of a nontrivial knot in 1949. Pic.
||1984: István Fáry dies ... mathematician known for his work in geometry and algebraic topology. He proved Fáry's theorem that every planar graph has a straight line embedding in 1948, and the Fary–Milnor theorem lower-bounding the curvature of a nontrivial knot in 1949. Pic.


||1988 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
||1988: The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.


||1990 – Eliot Porter, American photographer, chemist, and academic (b. 1901)
||1990: Eliot Porter dies ... photographer, chemist, and academic.


||Đuro Kurepa (d. November 2, 1993) was a Yugoslav mathematician. Pic
||1993: Đuro Kurepa dies ... mathematician. Pic


||2002 – Charles Sheffield, American physicist and author (b. 1935)
||2002: Charles Sheffield dies ... physicist and author.


||Rutherford "Gus" Aris (d. November 2, 2005) was a chemical engineer, control theorist, mathematician, and academic. Pic.
||2005: Rutherford "Gus" Aris dies ... chemical engineer, control theorist, mathematician, and academic. Pic.


||Adrien Douady (d. 2 November 2006) was a French mathematician.  
||2006: Adrien Douady dies ... mathematician.  


||Amir Pnueli (d. November 2, 2009) was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient.  He worked on temporal logic and model checking, particularly regarding fairness properties of concurrent systems. Pic.  
||2009: Amir Pnueli dies ... computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient.  He worked on temporal logic and model checking, particularly regarding fairness properties of concurrent systems. Pic.  


||Captain Forrest R. "Tex" Biard (d. November 2, 2009) was an American linguist in the U.S. Navy codebreaking organization during the Second World War. A pre-war student of Japanese, Biard's translation work is considered to have been an important part of American military success.
||2009: Captain Forrest R. "Tex" Biard dies ... American linguist in the U.S. Navy codebreaking organization during the Second World War. A pre-war student of Japanese, Biard's translation work is considered to have been an important part of American military success.


||2015 – Roy Dommett, English scientist and engineer (b. 1933) rockets
||2015: Roy Dommett dies ... scientist and engineer ... rockets


|File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|[[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] writes unit tests for [[Babbage simulator]].
|File:Cinnamon_pirate_flag_800x600.jpg|link=Cinnamon Jack (pirate)|Pirate captain [[Cinnamon Jack (pirate)|Cinnamon Jack]] fails to capture [[Fort Babbage]], acknowledges superior intellect of [[Ada Lovelace]]. "We shall match wits again, I feel sure," say Jack.
|File:Armada de capitaesanode.jpg|link=Simulada|[[Simulada|Simulated armada]] more dangerous than it appears, says [[Alan Turing]].
|File:Giacomo Puccini.jpg|link=Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|[[Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|Giacomo Puccini]] has complete faith in opera, orders champagne with [[Extract of Radium]].
|File:Brainiac Action Comics 242.png|link=Brainiac (nonfiction)|[[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] more dangerous than Action Comics realizes.
[[Time series (nonfiction)|time series analysis]].
|File:Time series diagram.png|link=Time series (nonfiction)|[[Time series (nonfiction)|Time series diagram]] indicates rise in [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Thefixisin pharmaceutical laboratory.jpg|link=Thefixisin (drug)|[[Thefixisin (drug)|Thefixisin]] laboratory in violation of numerous workplace safety laws.
|File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|[[Georg Cantor]] and [[David Hilbert]] may form crime-fighting team in response to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Gladiator movie poster.jpg|link=What we do in life echoes in eternity (nonfiction)|[[What we do in life echoes in eternity (nonfiction)|What we do in life echoes in eternity]], according to new [[Computation (nonfiction)|computational analysis]].
|File:Mud_pot.jpg|Mud pot in northern California runs dry, may relocate to [[Devil's Mud Pie]] area.
|File:Able Archer 83 After Action Report.jpg|link=Able Archer 83 (nonfiction)|1983:
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  • 1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.

    1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.

  • 1893: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Chrystal publishes evidence that seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both crimes against physics and crimes against chemistry.

    1893: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Chrystal publishes evidence that seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both crimes against physics and crimes against chemistry.

  • 1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

    1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

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