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||1936 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic. | ||1936 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic. | ||
||Floris Takens (November 12, 1940 – June 20, 2010) was a Dutch mathematician known for contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamical systems. Together with David Ruelle, he predicted that fluid turbulence could develop through a strange attractor, a term they coined, as opposed to the then-prevailing theory of accretion of modes. The prediction was later confirmed by experiment. Pic. | |||
File:Abe Reles corpse.png|link=Abe Reles (nonfiction)|1941: New York mobster and hit man [[Abe Reles (nonfiction)|Abe Reles]] dies. | File:Abe Reles corpse.png|link=Abe Reles (nonfiction)|1941: New York mobster and hit man [[Abe Reles (nonfiction)|Abe Reles]] dies. | ||
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1608: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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1941: New York mobster and hit man Abe Reles dies.
1942: Mathematician and soldier Janet Beta discovers evidence Colonel Zersetzung is secretly diverting government-issued Extract of Radium for his personal use.
1944: Mathematician George David Birkhoff dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.
1946: Military officer and alleged crime bos Colonel Zersetzung uses Extract of Radium to secretly synthesize illegal Clandestiphrine.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.
1989: AESOP predicts that Tim Berners-Lee will propose the World Wide Web one year from today.
1990: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.