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||1960: In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement. | ||1960: In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement. | ||
||1963: Herbert Spencer Gasser dies ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1963: Herbert Spencer Gasser dies ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1972: The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle. | ||1972: The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle. | ||
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||1981: Odd Hassel dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1981: Odd Hassel dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1985: Chester Gould dies ... cartoonist, created Dick Tracy. | ||1985: Chester Gould dies ... cartoonist, created Dick Tracy. Pic: strip. | ||
||1995: Leo Zippin dies ... mathematician. He is best known for solving Hilbert's Fifth Problem with Deane Montgomery and Andrew M. Gleason in 1952. Pic. | ||1995: Leo Zippin dies ... mathematician. He is best known for solving Hilbert's Fifth Problem with Deane Montgomery and Andrew M. Gleason in 1952. Pic. | ||
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||1998: India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran. | ||1998: India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran. | ||
||2002: Joseph Bonanno dies ... mob boss. | ||2002: Joseph Bonanno dies ... mob boss. Pic. | ||
||2011: Maurice Goldhaber dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||2011: Maurice Goldhaber dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
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868: A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
1610: Priest and mathematician Matteo Ricci dies. He translating Euclid's Elements into Chinese as well as the Confucian classics into Latin for the first time.
1845: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Jacques Philippe Marie Binet publishes new theory of crimes against mathematical constants using fundamental principles of matrix algebra.
1858: Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
1903: Public outrage in response to the short film Electrocuting an Elephant triggers a worldwide outbreak of Scrimshaw abuse.
1918: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman born. He will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
2018: Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Spiral Rings 2 reveals "eight hundred kilobytes, give or take" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.