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||1913 – Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (d. 1997) | ||1913 – Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (d. 1997) | ||
||Herman Kahn (b. February 15, 1922) was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. | |||
||1925 – The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska. | ||1925 – The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska. | ||
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1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".
1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1732: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet translates scrying engine textbook from English into French.
1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn invents new type of cellular automata.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.