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||1905: Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers born ... engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.
||1905: Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers born ... engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.


||Boris Yakovlevich Levin (b. 22 December 1906) was a Soviet mathematician who made significant contributions to function theory.
||1903: Haldan Keffer Hartline born ... physiologist and academic ...  co-recipient (with George Wald and Ragnar Granit) of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision. Pic.
 
||1906: Boris Yakovlevich Levin born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to function theory.


||1918: Hermann Theodor Simon dies ... physicist.
||1918: Hermann Theodor Simon dies ... physicist.

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  • 1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

    1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

  • 1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."

    1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."

  • 1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."

    1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."

  • 1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.

    1765: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff born. He will work on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which will become part of the theory of differential forms.

  • 1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

    1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

  • 1887: Mathematician and theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.

    1887: Mathematician and theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan born. He will make substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.

  • 1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

    1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

  • 1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.

    1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.

  • 2016: Chromatographic analysis of Red Spiral 3 reveals "at least four, possibly five" previously unknown shades of red.

    2016: Chromatographic analysis of Red Spiral 3 reveals "at least four, possibly five" previously unknown shades of red.

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