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||1900: Johanna Langefeld born ... guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=johanna+langefeld | ||1900: Johanna Langefeld born ... guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=johanna+langefeld | ||
||1901: Louis Kahn born ... architect and academic, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban. Pic. | |||
||1903: Eugène-Anatole Demarçay dies ... chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He isolated the element europium in 1896; in 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium. Pic. | ||1903: Eugène-Anatole Demarçay dies ... chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He isolated the element europium in 1896; in 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium. Pic. | ||
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||1912: Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. | ||1912: Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. | ||
||1914: | ||1914: Nuclear physicist and academic He Zehui born ... nuclear physicist who worked to develop and exploit nuclear physics in Germany and China. | ||
||1915: Laurent-Moïse Schwartz born ... mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions. Pic. | ||1915: Laurent-Moïse Schwartz born ... mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions. Pic. | ||
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||1990: Edgar Raymond Lorch dies ... mathematician. Described by The New York Times as "a leader in the development of modern mathematics theory" Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Lorch_Ray.html | ||1990: Edgar Raymond Lorch dies ... mathematician. Described by The New York Times as "a leader in the development of modern mathematics theory" Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Lorch_Ray.html | ||
||1993: James Wallace Givens, Jr. dies ... mathematician and a pioneer in computer science. He is the eponym of the well-known Givens rotations. Pic: https://www.siam.org/About-SIAM/Leadership | ||1993: James Wallace Givens, Jr. dies ... mathematician and a pioneer in computer science. He is the eponym of the well-known Givens rotations. Pic: https://www.siam.org/About-SIAM/Leadership | ||
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1223 BC: Solar eclipse occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language.
1574: Mathematician William Oughtred born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622.
1616: Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
1640: Didacus automaton attends and records lecture by William Oughtred, which it will later use to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1815: Physician Franz Mesmer dies. Mesmer theorized that there is a natural energy transference which occurs between all animated and inanimate objects which he called animal magnetism. The effects which he observed are now attributed to hypnosis.
1827: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1836: Inventor Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
2008: Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum dies. He is considered one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.
2009: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Gnomon algorithm techniques.
2016: Computer programmer and engineer Ray Tomlinson dies. He implemented the first email system on ARPANET, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.
2016: Signed first edition of Pilgrim sells for thirty-two thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.