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||Boris Yakovlevich Levin (b. 22 December 1906) was a Soviet mathematician who made significant contributions to function theory. | ||Boris Yakovlevich Levin (b. 22 December 1906) was a Soviet mathematician who made significant contributions to function theory. | ||
||Hermann Theodor Simon | ||1918: Hermann Theodor Simon dies ... physicist. | ||
||Edwin Evariste Moise | ||1918: Edwin Evariste Moise born ... mathematician and mathematics education reformer. Pic. | ||
File:Das Gespenst eines Flohs.jpg|link=Monster (nonfiction)|1920: Lecture by [[Monster (nonfiction)|monster]] ends in riot. | File:Das Gespenst eines Flohs.jpg|link=Monster (nonfiction)|1920: Lecture by [[Monster (nonfiction)|monster]] ends in riot. | ||
||1925 | ||1925: Amelie Beese dies ... pilot and engineer. | ||
||Thomas Greenway Stockham | ||1933: Thomas Greenway Stockham born ... scientist who developed one of the first practical digital audio recording systems, and pioneered techniques for digital audio recording and processing as well. Pic. | ||
||1942 | ||1942: World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon. | ||
||1943: dies Henri Abraham ... was a French physicist who made important contributions to the science of radio waves. He performed some of the first measurements of the propagation velocity of radio waves, helped develop France's first triode vacuum tube, and with Eugene Bloch invented the astable multivibrator. | ||1943: dies Henri Abraham ... was a French physicist who made important contributions to the science of radio waves. He performed some of the first measurements of the propagation velocity of radio waves, helped develop France's first triode vacuum tube, and with Eugene Bloch invented the astable multivibrator. | ||
| | ||1964: The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. | ||
|| | ||1996: Jack Hamm dies ... cartoonist and television host. | ||
| | ||2000: Herman Feshbach dies ... physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics. | ||
| | ||2014: John Robert Beyster dies ... physicist and academic. | ||
File:Red Spiral 3.jpg|link=Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 3]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | |||
| | ||2016: Jack Howard Silver dies ... set theorist, logician, and academic.He made several contributions to set theory in the areas of large cardinals and the constructible universe L. Pic. | ||
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1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."
1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.
1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
1887: Mathematician and theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.
1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.
2016: Red Spiral 3 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.