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||1994 – William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906) | ||1994 – William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906) | ||
||Edwin Hewitt (d. June 21, 1999) was an American mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt–Savage zero–one law. | |||
||2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. | ||2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. | ||
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1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
1947: Lorenz system diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.
1952: Crime-fighter The Governess chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.
