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||1942 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research Inc. (d. 1994) | ||1942 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research Inc. (d. 1994) | ||
||Sir Joseph Larmor FRS FRSE DCL LLD (d. 1942) was a Northern Irish physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. | |||
||1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city. | ||1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city. | ||
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1883: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels stolen. It will later be recovered by Niles Cartouchian and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.
1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will publish work on tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.
1954: Computer programmer Jean Bartik discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
1964: Publication of The Hal Jordan Playbook linked to outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.