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||1881: Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich dies ... Russian revolutionary of Ukrainian origin who took part in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II as the main explosive expert for Narodnaya Volya (the People's Will), and was also a rocket pioneer. He was the paternal uncle of revolutionary Victor Serge. Pic. | ||1881: Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich dies ... Russian revolutionary of Ukrainian origin who took part in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II as the main explosive expert for Narodnaya Volya (the People's Will), and was also a rocket pioneer. He was the paternal uncle of revolutionary Victor Serge. Pic. | ||
||1882: American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James. | ||1882: American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James. Pic. | ||
||1885: Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design. Pic. | ||1885: Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design. Pic. | ||
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||1892: Hans Adolph Rademacher born ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory. Pic: http://apprendre-math.info/anglais/historyDetail.htm?id=Rademacher | ||1892: Hans Adolph Rademacher born ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory. Pic: http://apprendre-math.info/anglais/historyDetail.htm?id=Rademacher | ||
||1895: The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. | ||1895: The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. Pic. | ||
||1902: Reinhard Gehlen born ... German general who was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East (FHO) military-intelligence unit, during World War II (1942–45); spymaster of the anti–Communist Gehlen Organization for the United States (1946–56); and the first president (1956–68) of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany, during the Cold War. | ||1902: Reinhard Gehlen born ... German general who was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East (FHO) military-intelligence unit, during World War II (1942–45); spymaster of the anti–Communist Gehlen Organization for the United States (1946–56); and the first president (1956–68) of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany, during the Cold War. Pic. | ||
File:Solomon Kullback.jpg|link=Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|1907: Cryptanalyst and mathematician [[Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|Solomon Kullback]] born. Krullback will begin his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) is formed in 1952, Rowlett will become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis. | File:Solomon Kullback.jpg|link=Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|1907: Cryptanalyst and mathematician [[Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|Solomon Kullback]] born. Krullback will begin his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) is formed in 1952, Rowlett will become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis. |
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1693: Carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1907: Cryptanalyst and mathematician Solomon Kullback born. Krullback will begin his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) is formed in 1952, Rowlett will become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis.
1908: Chemist, physicist, and APTO field engineer William Crookes uses the famous Crookes tube to defeat the criminal mathematical function Killer Poke in single combat.
1995: Mathematician and checkers player Marion Tinsley dies. Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."
1998: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright dies. She did pioneering work in chaos theory.
1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast artificial intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere.
2017: Signed first edition of Crimson Blossom spontaneously develop and previously unknown shade of red after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during a high-energy literature experiment.