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|File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1932: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]]. | |File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1932: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]]. | ||
||1942 | ||1942: World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board. | ||
||1958 | ||1958: Charles Hatfield dies ... meteorologist. | ||
||1994 | ||1994: Gustav Naan dies ... physicist and philosopher. | ||
||1996 | ||1996: Joachim Nitsche dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
||Bartel Leendert van der Waerden | ||1996: Bartel Leendert van der Waerden dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. | ||
||2003 | ||2003: Alan Nunn May dies ... English physicist and spy. | ||
||2004 | ||2004: Olga Ladyzhenskaya dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
File:Deep Impact.png|link=Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2005: [[Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Deep Impact]] launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It will be the first spacecraft to eject material from a comet's surface. | File:Deep Impact.png|link=Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2005: [[Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Deep Impact]] launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It will be the first spacecraft to eject material from a comet's surface. | ||
||2012: Basil Gordon dies ... mathematician at UCLA, specializing in number theory and combinatorics.[1] He obtained his Ph.D. at California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Tom Apostol. Ken Ono was one of his students. Gordon is well known for Göllnitz–Gordon identities, generalizing the Rogers–Ramanujan identities.[2] He also posed the still-unsolved Gaussian moat problem in 1962. Pic: https://www.math.ucla.edu/news/memoriam-basil-gordon-professor-mathematics-emeritus-1931-%E2%80%93-2012 | |||
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1665: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat dies. He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown.
1875: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to perform scrying engine functions.
1876: Author Jack London born. He will become one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1900: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1909: Mathematician and academic Hermann Minkowski dies. He showed that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".
2005: Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It will be the first spacecraft to eject material from a comet's surface.