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||1949: Jerry Bittle born ... cartoonist. | ||1949: Jerry Bittle born ... cartoonist. | ||
||1949: Ashawna Hailey born ... computer scientist and philanthropist. | ||1949: Ashawna Hailey born ... computer scientist and philanthropist. Pic. | ||
||1967: New York Times publishes article "Two Men in Search of the Quark;" by Lee Edson on the work at Calif Inst of Tech by Professors Gell-Mann Feynman to find the "ultimate particle of matter" which they had labled a quark. | ||1967: New York Times publishes article "Two Men in Search of the Quark;" by Lee Edson on the work at Calif Inst of Tech by Professors Gell-Mann Feynman to find the "ultimate particle of matter" which they had labled a quark. | ||
||1973: Evan Tom Davies dies ... mathematician and linguist. He studied applications of the Lie derivative as it relates to Riemannian geometry as well as absolute differential calculus | ||1973: Evan Tom Davies dies ... mathematician and linguist. He studied applications of the Lie derivative as it relates to Riemannian geometry as well as absolute differential calculus. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Evan+Tom+Davies | ||
||1974: Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States. | ||1974: Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States. | ||
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1860: Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.
1924: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.
1925: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess stolen by math criminals.
1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter Joseph Wedderburn the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu.
1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.
2009: Physicist and crime-fighter Tullio Regge uses spin foam models to detect and prevent crimes against physics, warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."
2016: Butterfly voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.