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||1914: Bill Finger born ... author and screenwriter, co-created Batman. | ||1914: Bill Finger born ... author and screenwriter, co-created Batman. | ||
||1915: D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles. | ||1915: D. W. Griffith's controversial film ''The Birth of a Nation'' premieres in Los Angeles. | ||
||1922: Gaetano Fichera born ... mathematician, working in mathematical analysis, linear elasticity, partial differential equations and several complex variables. Pic. | ||1922: Gaetano Fichera born ... mathematician, working in mathematical analysis, linear elasticity, partial differential equations and several complex variables. Pic. | ||
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File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations. | File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations. | ||
||1936: Mathematician and academic Emilie | File:Emilie_Norton_Martin.jpg|link=Emilie Martin (nonfiction)|1936: Mathematician and academic [[Emilie Martin (nonfiction)|Emilie Martin]] dies. Martin researched primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18. | ||
||1942: Fritz Todt dies ... engineer and politician ... German construction engineer, senior Nazi, who rose from "Inspector General for German Roadways" where he directed the construction of German Autobahnen (Reichsautobahnen) to Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition where he directed the entire war military economy. At the beginning of World War II he initiated what Hitler named Organisation Todt, a military engineering company, which supplied industry with forced labor and administered all constructions of concentration camps in the late phase of Nazi Germany. Pic. | ||1942: Fritz Todt dies ... engineer and politician ... German construction engineer, senior Nazi, who rose from "Inspector General for German Roadways" where he directed the construction of German Autobahnen (Reichsautobahnen) to Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition where he directed the entire war military economy. At the beginning of World War II he initiated what Hitler named Organisation Todt, a military engineering company, which supplied industry with forced labor and administered all constructions of concentration camps in the late phase of Nazi Germany. Pic. | ||
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1550: Printer, publisher, and APTO Artist-Engineer Christian Egenolff publishes his monumental Field Guide to Gnomon Algorithm Functions.
1700: Mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli born. He will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
1866: Chemist Moses Gomberg born. He will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.
1867: Didacus automaton develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1879: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1933: Carnivorous dirigibles found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations.
1936: Mathematician and academic Emilie Martin dies. Martin researched primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18.
1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann dies. He was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
1973: Physicist, engineer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Dennis Gabor invents new form of holography which detects and prevents crimes against light.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Triumph reveals "at least four thousand and ninety-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.