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||Lee Albert Rubel (b. December 1, 1928) was a mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics renowned for his contributions to analog computing. Nopic
||Lee Albert Rubel (b. December 1, 1928) was a mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics renowned for his contributions to analog computing. Nopic


||1935 – Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)
||1935: Bernhard Schmidt dies ... optician, invented the Schmidt camera.


||1940 – Jerry Lawson, American electronic engineer and inventor (d. 2011)
||1940: Jerry Lawson born ... electronic engineer and inventor.


File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
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File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1948: [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] new theory of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which argues that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.  
File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1948: [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] new theory of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which argues that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.  


||The Tamam Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach, Glenelg, just south of Adelaide, South Australia. It is named after the Persian phrase tamám shud, meaning "ended" or "finished", printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. Pic.
||1948: The Tamam Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach, Glenelg, just south of Adelaide, South Australia. It is named after the Persian phrase tamám shud, meaning "ended" or "finished", printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. Pic.


||Philippe Flajolet (b. 1 December 1948) was a French computer scientist. He will contribute to general methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms, including the theory of average-case complexity. Pic.
||1948: Philippe Flajolet born ... computer scientist. He will contribute to general methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms, including the theory of average-case complexity. Pic.


||1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
||1952: The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.


||1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
||1959: Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.


||1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
||1960: Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.


||1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
||1964: Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.


File:1969 draft lottery scatterplot.svg|link=Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|1969: The first [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] in the United States is held since World War II.
File:1969 draft lottery scatterplot.svg|link=Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|1969: The first [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] in the United States is held since World War II.


|File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1970: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 reprogrammed to simulate [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]].
||1977: Kenneth O. May dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics, who developed May's theorem. Pic: https://www.mathunion.org/ichm/about-us/brief-history-international-commission-history-mathematics-ichm


||1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
||1990: Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.


||2005 – Gust Avrakotos, American CIA officer (b. 1938)
||2005: Gust Avrakotos dies ... American CIA officer.


||Alexander L'vovich Brudno (Russian: Александр Львович Брудно) (d. December 1, 2009) was a Russian computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm.
||2009: Alexander L'vovich Brudno dies ... computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm.


||2013 – Stirling Colgate, American physicist and academic (b. 1925)
||2013: Stirling Colgate dies ... physicist and academic.


||2015 – Joseph Engelberger, American physicist and engineer (b. 1925) Robotics
||2015: Joseph Engelberger dies ... physicist and engineer ... Robotics
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  • 1910: Physicist Louis Slotin born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1910: Physicist Louis Slotin born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • 1947: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

    1947: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

  • 1947: Mathematician and crime-fighter L. E. J. Brouwer publishes new theory of complex analysis with application in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1947: Mathematician and crime-fighter L. E. J. Brouwer publishes new theory of complex analysis with application in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1947: Magician and author Aleister Crowley dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.

    1947: Magician and author Aleister Crowley dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.

  • 1948: Claude Lévi-Strauss new theory of Gnomon algorithm functions which argues that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.

    1948: Claude Lévi-Strauss new theory of Gnomon algorithm functions which argues that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.

  • 1969: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

    1969: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

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