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||1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair. | ||1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair. | ||
||Philip McCord Morse (b. August 6, 1903), was an American physicist, administrator and pioneer of operations research (OR) in World War II.[1] He is considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S. | |||
||Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (d. 6 August 1925) was an Italian mathematician born in Lugo di Romagna. He is most famous as the inventor of tensor calculus | ||Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (d. 6 August 1925) was an Italian mathematician born in Lugo di Romagna. He is most famous as the inventor of tensor calculus | ||
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1638: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche born. He will be instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.
1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
1753: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, with an addendum on applications of Gnomon algorithm functions to the psychology of crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.
1969: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight purchased by Andy Warhol for an undisclosed sum.
1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2012: NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.