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||1942: The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands. | ||1942: The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands. | ||
||1942 | ||1942: Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins. | ||
||William Fogg Osgood | ||1943: William Fogg Osgood dies ... mathematician. | ||
||Vyacheslav Vassilievich Stepanov | ||1950: Vyacheslav Vassilievich Stepanov dies ... mathematician, specializing in analysis. | ||
File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] tries to warn NASA that [[Mariner 1 (nonfiction)|Mariner 1]] has been targeted by [[math criminals]]. | File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] tries to warn NASA that [[Mariner 1 (nonfiction)|Mariner 1]] has been targeted by [[math criminals]]. | ||
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File:Atlas_Agena_with_Mariner_1.jpg|link=Mariner 1 (nonfiction)|1962: Mariner program: [[Mariner 1 (nonfiction)|Mariner 1]] spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed. | File:Atlas_Agena_with_Mariner_1.jpg|link=Mariner 1 (nonfiction)|1962: Mariner program: [[Mariner 1 (nonfiction)|Mariner 1]] spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed. | ||
||2000 | ||1995: Otakar Borůvka dies ... mathematician best known today for his work in graph theory. Pic. | ||
||2000: Raymond Lemieux dies ... chemist and academic. | |||
File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2017: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2017: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | ||
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1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi dies. He discovered dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Gem detective and astronomer Niles Cartouchian discovers time crystals on the dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones.
1932: Inventor Reginald Fessenden dies. He performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.
1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tries to warn NASA that Mariner 1 has been targeted by math criminals.
1962: Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
2017: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.