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1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
1958: Time-travelling combat physician Asclepius Myrmidon prevents Baron Zersetzung from detonating the Tybee Bomb.
1958: The United States military announces that the search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series blamed for outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
2008: Mathematician Edward Lorenz dies. He introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.
2008: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.

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 ||1895 – Ove Arup, English-Danish engineer and businessman, founded Arup (d. 1988) Sydney Opera House
+||Hellmuth Kneser (b. 16 April 1898) was a Baltic German mathematician, who made notable contributions to group theory and topology. His most famous result may be his theorem on the existence of a prime decomposition for 3-manifolds. His proof originated the concept of normal surface, a fundamental cornerstone of the theory of 3-manifolds.
 ||1899 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist and academic (d. 1988)