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||Jay Wright Forrester (b. July 14, 1918) was a pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Forrester is known as the founder of system dynamics, which deals with the simulation of interactions between objects in dynamic systems. Pic. | ||Jay Wright Forrester (b. July 14, 1918) was a pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Forrester is known as the founder of system dynamics, which deals with the simulation of interactions between objects in dynamic systems. Pic. | ||
||1921 | ||1921: Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996). Pic. | ||
||1933 | ||1933: Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party. | ||
||1933 | ||1933: The Nazi eugenics begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring that calls for the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders. | ||
||Richard Edler von Mises (d. 14 July 1953) was a scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. | ||1948: Harry Brearley dies ... was an English metallurgist, usually credited with the invention of "rustless steel" (later to be called "stainless steel" in the anglophone world). Pic. | ||
||Richard Edler von Mises (d. 14 July 1953) was a scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. Pic. | |||
||Thomas Wolff (b. July 14, 1954) was a noted mathematician, working primarily in the fields of harmonic analysis, complex analysis, and partial differential equations. Pic. | ||Thomas Wolff (b. July 14, 1954) was a noted mathematician, working primarily in the fields of harmonic analysis, complex analysis, and partial differential equations. Pic. | ||
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1856: Mathematician Charles Hermite is elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Jacques Binet in the Académie des Sciences.
1962: Soldier of fortune and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung steals the Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon. The theft will soon be retroactively prevented by the The Custodian.
1962: United States Army tests Small Boy, a tactical nuclear weapon, at the Nevada Test Site. Yield was 1.65 kt.
1962: The Custodian prevents attempt by Baron Zersetzung to steal the Small Boy tactical nuclear weapon.
1965: The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars.