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||1902: Reinhard Gehlen born ... German general who was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East (FHO) military-intelligence unit, during World War II (1942–45); spymaster of the anti–Communist Gehlen Organization for the United States (1946–56); and the first president (1956–68) of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany, during the Cold War. | ||1902: Reinhard Gehlen born ... German general who was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East (FHO) military-intelligence unit, during World War II (1942–45); spymaster of the anti–Communist Gehlen Organization for the United States (1946–56); and the first president (1956–68) of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany, during the Cold War. | ||
||1907: Solomon Kullback born . | File:Solomon Kullback.jpg|link=Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|1907: Cryptanalyst and mathematician [[Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|Solomon Kullback]] born. Krullback will begin his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) is formed in 1952, Rowlett will become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis. | ||
File:Sir_William_Crookes_1906.jpg|link=William Crookes (nonfiction)|1908: Chemist, physicist, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[William Crookes (nonfiction)|William Crookes]] uses the famous Crookes tube to defeat the criminal mathematical function [[Killer Poke]] in single combat. | File:Sir_William_Crookes_1906.jpg|link=William Crookes (nonfiction)|1908: Chemist, physicist, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[William Crookes (nonfiction)|William Crookes]] uses the famous Crookes tube to defeat the criminal mathematical function [[Killer Poke]] in single combat. |
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1693: Carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1841: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1907: Cryptanalyst and mathematician Solomon Kullback born. Krullback will begin his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) is formed in 1952, Rowlett will become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis.
1908: Chemist, physicist, and APTO field engineer William Crookes uses the famous Crookes tube to defeat the criminal mathematical function Killer Poke in single combat.
1995: Mathematician and checkers player Marion Tinsley dies. Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."
1998: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright dies. She did pioneering work in chaos theory.
1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast artificial intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere.
2017: Signed first edition of Crimson Blossom spontaneously develop and previously unknown shade of red after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during a high-energy literature experiment.