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||1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company. | ||1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company. | ||
||1945 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic and author (b. 1877) | ||1945 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic and author (b. 1877) | ||
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1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
1953: Physicist and crime-fighter Erwin Schrödinger uses the Schrödinger equation to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1954: Actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson born.
1965: Antikythera Team invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.