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||1987 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May. | ||1987 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May. | ||
||Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove (d. 2 September 1990) was a Belgian physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Pic. | |||
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1999: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' sells for one and a half million dollars. | File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1999: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' sells for one and a half million dollars. | ||
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1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.
1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1947: Mathematician and crimefighter Haskell Curry publishes new theory of combinatory logic which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.
1999: Signed first edition of The Eel Escapes Hydrolab sells for one and a half million dollars.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for two million dollars.
