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1845: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1911: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes criticized for his unpatriotic opinions.
1912: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré dies. He made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1920: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould born. He will invent and name the laser.
1944: The Port Chicago disaster: Munitions detonate while being loaded onto a cargo vessel bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations, killing 320 sailors and civilians and injuring 390 others at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States.
1944: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.

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 ||1927: Mathematician Maria Wonenburger born ... She will work on group theory, the theory of Lie algebras, and the orthogonal group and its corresponding projective group. Pic.
-File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1929: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 File:Port Chicago disaster.jpg|link=Port Chicago disaster (nonfiction)|1944: The [[Port Chicago disaster (nonfiction)|Port Chicago disaster]]: Munitions detonate while being loaded onto a cargo vessel bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations, killing 320 sailors and civilians and injuring 390 others at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States.
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 ||2015: Hartley Rogers Jr. dies ... mathematician who worked in recursion theory, and was a professor in the Mathematics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Rogers equivalence theorem is named after him. Pic: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=hartley-rogers&pid=175517283
-File:Angry_Feller.jpg|link=Angry Feller (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Angry Feller (nonfiction)|Angry Feller]]'' stolen from the Louvre in daytime raid by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
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