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||Alfred Schild (b. September 7, 1921) was a leading German-American physicist, well known for his contributions to the Golden age of general relativity (1960–1975).
||Alfred Schild (b. September 7, 1921) was a leading German-American physicist, well known for his contributions to the Golden age of general relativity (1960–1975).


||1923 – The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.
||1923: The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.


File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1926: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Safe-Cracker]]'' reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1926: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Safe-Cracker]]'' reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
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File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on axiomatic set theory, which he uses to detect and counteract [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on axiomatic set theory, which he uses to detect and counteract [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Marcel Grossmann (d. September 7, 1936) was a mathematician and a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Pic.
||1936: Marcel Grossmann dies ... mathematician and a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Pic.


||1940 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights
||1939: Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov ... lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. Pic.


||Otto Yulyevich Schmidt (d. September 7, 1956) was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician, Hero of the USSR (27 June 1937), and member of the Communist Party.
||1940: World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights


||1965 – Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
||1956: Otto Yulyevich Schmidt dies ... scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician, Hero of the USSR (27 June 1937), and member of the Communist Party.


||1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
||1965: Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.


||Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin (d. 7 September 1983) was a Swedish businessman and inventor of encryption machines.
||1978: While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
 
||1983: Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin dies ... businessman and inventor of encryption machines.


File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] dies.  He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] dies.  He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.

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