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||1980: Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff dies ... officer in the German Army. He attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943; the plan failed when Hitler left early, but Gersdorff was undetected. Pic. | ||1980: Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff dies ... officer in the German Army. He attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943; the plan failed when Hitler left early, but Gersdorff was undetected. Pic. | ||
||1990: Jessie MacWilliams dies ... mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=florence+jessie+macwilliams | |||
||1993: Nils Aall Barricelli dies ... mathematician. His computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution are considered pioneering in artificial life research. Pic. | ||1993: Nils Aall Barricelli dies ... mathematician. His computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution are considered pioneering in artificial life research. Pic. |
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1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.
1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
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1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.
1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to counteract the effects of crimes against poetry.
2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
2016: Ringmaster declared Picture of the Day by citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.