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||1851: Edward Hargraves announces he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.
||1851: Edward Hargraves announces he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.
||1857: Meteorologist William Charles Redfield dies ... known for his observation of the directionality of winds in hurricanes (being among the first to propose that hurricanes are large circular vortexes (John Farrar had made similar observations six years earlier) ... He was the first president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1843). Pic.


||1861: Lou Andreas-Salomé born ... psychoanalyst and author.
||1861: Lou Andreas-Salomé born ... psychoanalyst and author.
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File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1947: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] dies. He  identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.
File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1947: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] dies. He  identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.


||1950: Dirk Coster dies ... physicist.
||1950: Dirk Coster dies ... physicist. He is known as the co-discoverer of Hafnium (Hf) (element 72) in 1923, along with George de Hevesy, by means of X-ray spectroscopic analysis of zirconium ore. Pic.


||1958: Douglas Hartree dies ... mathematician and physicist.
||1958: Douglas Hartree dies ... mathematician and physicist ... development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree-Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of the meccano differential analyzer. Pic.


File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1959: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged criminal mastermind [[Skip Digits]] uses [[high-energy literature]] techniques to record his hit song "[[Clepsydra]]".  
File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1959: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged criminal mastermind [[Skip Digits]] uses [[high-energy literature]] techniques to record his hit song "[[Clepsydra]]".  
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||1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
||1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.


||1977: Ebenezer Cunningham dies ... mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity.
||1977: Ebenezer Cunningham dies ... mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ebenezer+cunningham


||1980: Carl Einar Hille dies ... mathematics professor and scholar. Hille authored or coauthored twelve books mathematical books and a number of mathematical papers  
||1980: Carl Einar Hille dies ... mathematics professor and scholar. Hille authored or coauthored twelve books mathematical books and a number of mathematical papers. Pic.


File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1983: [[High-energy literature]] research project accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1983: [[High-energy literature]] research project accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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||2000: Charles M. Schulz dies ... cartoonist, created Peanuts.
||2000: Charles M. Schulz dies ... cartoonist, created Peanuts.


||2001: Herbert Ellis Robbins dies ... mathematician and statistician. He did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields. The Robbins lemma, used in empirical Bayes methods, is named after him. Robbins algebras are named after him because of a conjecture (since proved) that he posed concerning Boolean algebras. The Robbins theorem, in graph theory, is also named after him, as is the Whitney–Robbins synthesis, a tool he introduced to prove this theorem.  Pic.
||2001: Herbert Robbins dies ... mathematician and statistician. He did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields. The Robbins lemma, used in empirical Bayes methods, is named after him. Robbins algebras are named after him because of a conjecture (since proved) that he posed concerning Boolean algebras. The Robbins theorem, in graph theory, is also named after him, as is the Whitney–Robbins synthesis, a tool he introduced to prove this theorem.  Pic.


||2001: NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
||2001: NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

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  • 1767: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent a cross-linked set of crimes against physics, astronomy, and mathematics.

    1767: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent a cross-linked set of crimes against physics, astronomy, and mathematics.

  • 1914: Mathematician and academic Hanna Neumann born. She will contribute to group theory, co-authoring the important paper Wreath products and varieties of groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter), and authoring the influential book Varieties of Groups (1967).

    1914: Mathematician and academic Hanna Neumann born. She will contribute to group theory, co-authoring the important paper Wreath products and varieties of groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter), and authoring the influential book Varieties of Groups (1967).

  • 1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.

    1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.

  • 1935: Physicist and engineer Robert Jemison Van de Graaff receives a patent for his Electrostatic Generator design (U.S. No. 1,991,236), able to generate direct-current voltages much higher than the 700,000-V which was the state of the art at the time using other methods.

    1935: Physicist and engineer Robert Jemison Van de Graaff receives a patent for his Electrostatic Generator design (U.S. No. 1,991,236), able to generate direct-current voltages much higher than the 700,000-V which was the state of the art at the time using other methods.

  • 1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.

    1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.

  • 1947: Chemist Moses Gomberg dies. He identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.

    1947: Chemist Moses Gomberg dies. He identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.

  • 1959: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged criminal mastermind Skip Digits uses high-energy literature techniques to record his hit song "Clepsydra".

    1959: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged criminal mastermind Skip Digits uses high-energy literature techniques to record his hit song "Clepsydra".

  • 1960: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson dies. He made important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.

    1960: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson dies. He made important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.

  • 1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).

    1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).

  • 1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

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    1994: Mathematical physicist Charles Critchfield dies. He worked on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provided the burst of neutrons that kick-started the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Green Tangle reveals "at least a megabyte" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Green Tangle reveals "at least a megabyte" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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