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||1896: Leslie Groves born ... general and engineer.
||1896: Leslie Groves born ... general and engineer.
||1900: August Becker born ... mid-ranking functionary in the SS of Nazi Germany and chemist in the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA). He helped design the vans with a gas chamber built into the back compartment used in early Nazi mass murder of disabled people, political dissidents, Jews, and other "racial enemies," including Action T4 as well as the Einsatzgruppen (mobile Nazi death squads) in the Nazi-occupied portions of the Soviet Union.  No pic online.


||1901: Francis Perrin born ... physicist - Nuclear High-Commissioner - In 1972, he discovered the Oklo natural reactor.
||1901: Francis Perrin born ... physicist - Nuclear High-Commissioner - In 1972, he discovered the Oklo natural reactor.

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  • 1807: Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

    1807: Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

  • 1904: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter Marie Curie condemns Extract of Radium as "a terrible hazard to health and sanity."

    1904: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter Marie Curie condemns Extract of Radium as "a terrible hazard to health and sanity."

  • 1927: Mathematician Erik Ivar Fredholm dies. He introduced and analyzed a class of integral equations now called Fredholm equations. Fredholm's work on integral equations and operator theory anticipated the theory of Hilbert spaces.

    1927: Mathematician Erik Ivar Fredholm dies. He introduced and analyzed a class of integral equations now called Fredholm equations. Fredholm's work on integral equations and operator theory anticipated the theory of Hilbert spaces.

  • 1929: Captain and pilot Francis Gary Powers born.

    1929: Captain and pilot Francis Gary Powers born.

  • 1930: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde begins shooting his film Spy Pilot.

    1930: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde begins shooting his film Spy Pilot.

  • 1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).

    1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).

  • 1996: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, predicts the GW170817 gravitational wave signal observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration.

    1996: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, predicts the GW170817 gravitational wave signal observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration.

  • 2017: The GW170817 gravitational wave signal is observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration. It is the first gravitational wave event observed to have a simultaneous electromagnetic signal, a significant breakthrough for multi-messenger astronomy.

    2017: The GW170817 gravitational wave signal is observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration. It is the first gravitational wave event observed to have a simultaneous electromagnetic signal, a significant breakthrough for multi-messenger astronomy.

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of Ringmaster confirms the GW170817 gravitational wave signal observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration.

    2017: Steganographic analysis of Ringmaster confirms the GW170817 gravitational wave signal observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration.

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