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||1900: Joseph Rochefort born ... American Naval officer and cryptanalyst. His contributions and those of his team were pivotal to victory in the Pacific War. Rochefort was a major figure in the United States Navy's cryptographic and intelligence operations from 1925 to 1946, particularly in the Battle of Midway. Pic. | ||1900: Joseph Rochefort born ... American Naval officer and cryptanalyst. His contributions and those of his team were pivotal to victory in the Pacific War. Rochefort was a major figure in the United States Navy's cryptographic and intelligence operations from 1925 to 1946, particularly in the Battle of Midway. Pic. | ||
||1906: William Maurice "Doc" Ewing born ... geophysicist and oceanographer. | ||1906: William Maurice "Doc" Ewing born ... geophysicist and oceanographer. Pic. | ||
File:Stanisław Leśniewski.jpg|link=Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|1907: Mathematician, logician, and crime-fighter [[Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|Stanisław Leśniewski]] publishes his philosophy of three nested formal systems and their application to detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Stanisław Leśniewski.jpg|link=Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|1907: Mathematician, logician, and crime-fighter [[Stanisław Leśniewski (nonfiction)|Stanisław Leśniewski]] publishes his philosophy of three nested formal systems and their application to detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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||1926: The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. | ||1926: The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. | ||
||1931: Alfred Lothar Wegener found dead of natural causes ... polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist. Pic. | |||
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||1965: The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon. | ||1965: The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon. | ||
||2001: Alexei Tupolev dies ... engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144. | ||2001: Alexei Tupolev dies ... engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144. Pic. | ||
||1910: William Huggins dies ... astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife Margaret Lindsay Huggins. Pic. | ||1910: William Huggins dies ... astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife Margaret Lindsay Huggins. Pic. | ||
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1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or tomorrow.
1855: Mathematician, circus magician, and gentleman detective Jan Kochanowski uses Nebra sky disk to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
1857: Mathematician Oskar Bolza born. He will be known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities will later became important in control theory.
1907: Mathematician, logician, and crime-fighter Stanisław Leśniewski publishes his philosophy of three nested formal systems and their application to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1929: Electrical engineer, inventor, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Arthur Scherbius signs the APTO Accords, allowing his Enigma machine to be used for military purposes, while neutralizing their potential for use in crimes against mathematical constants.
1941: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
2014: Painter, sculptor, and set designer H. R. Giger dies. He gained fame for his work on the film Alien.
2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel escapes from The Nacreum using a surfboard powered by the gnomon algorithm.
2018: Pinwheel Diagram sells for $500 USD in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.