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||1902 – Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) | ||1902 – Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) | ||
||Edwin Henry Spanier (b. August 8, 1921) was an American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley, working in algebraic topology. He co-invented Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology, and wrote what was for a long time the standard textbook on algebraic topology | |||
||1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight. | ||1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight. | ||
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1555: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé dies. He was imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing judicial astrology.
1872: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" Wallace War-Heels defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1873: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds dies. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.
1963: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
2000: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
2017: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for two million dollars in charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.