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||1934: Carlos Chagas dies ... physician and bacteriologist.
||1934: Carlos Chagas dies ... physician and bacteriologist.
|File:Joseph_Schillinger_and_the_Rhythmicon.jpg|link=Drum machine (nonfiction)|1937: Music educator Joseph Schillinger inspects [[Drum machine (nonfiction)|Rhythmicon]], finds no evidence of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1939: Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
||1939: Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
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||1950: Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
||1950: Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.


||1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
||1952: Gino Fano dies ... mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy.


||1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century to become the 35th president of the United States.
||1957: Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
 
||1960: John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century to become the 35th president of the United States.


File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1969: Astronomer [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] dies.  He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1969: Astronomer [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] dies.  He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
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File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|1974: [[Green Ring]] tells [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] a funny story about ''[[Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography (nonfiction)|Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography]]''.  
File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|1974: [[Green Ring]] tells [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] a funny story about ''[[Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography (nonfiction)|Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography]]''.  


||1986 – Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer and activist (d. 2013)
||1986: Aaron Swartz born ... computer programmer and activist.
 
||2006 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian physicist and academic (b. 1941)


||Melba Newell Phillips (d. November 8, 2004) was an American physicist and pioneer science educator.  
||1997: Menahem Max Schiffer dies ... mathematician who worked in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schiffer.html


||2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
||2006: Hannspeter Winter dies ... physicist and academic (b. 1941)


||2011 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922)
||2004: Melba Newell Phillips dies ... physicist and pioneer science educator.  


||2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
||2009: Vitaly Ginzburg dies ... physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2013 – William C. Davidon, American physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1927)
||2011: Bil Keane dies ... cartoonist.


||2015 – Rod Davies, Australian-English astronomer and academic (b. 1930)
||2011: The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.


||Gino Fano (5 January 1871 – 8 November 1952) was an Italian mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy.
||2013: William C. Davidon dies ... physicist, mathematician, and academic.


|File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|2001: [[Cryptographic numen]] modeled in nanowire, generates preview of ''[[Unexpectedly Hanging Chad]]''.
||2015: Rod Davies dies ... astronomer and academic (b. 1930)


|File:Paper_tape_relay_operation.jpg|link=Unexpectedly Hanging Chad|2002": Documentary film ''[[Unexpectedly Hanging Chad]]'' reveals evidence of widespread [[Thefixisin]] poisoning.
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