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||1987: Hans Motz dies ... pioneering work at Stanford University on undulators which led to the development of the wiggler and the free-electron laser. Pic: https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rse34067 | ||1987: Hans Motz dies ... pioneering work at Stanford University on undulators which led to the development of the wiggler and the free-electron laser. Pic: https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rse34067 | ||
||2000: Arthur Harold Stone dies ... mathematician born in London, who worked mostly in topology. he proved the Erdős–Stone theorem with Paul Erdős and is credited with the discovery of the first 2 flexagons, a trihexaflexagon and a hexahexaflexagon. Pic: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-london-mathematical-society/article/arthur-harold-stone-19162000/1E575AF918A66A3DEB8F902221CCAFC5 | |||
File:Tim Berners-Lee (2009).jpg|link=Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|1991: Computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|Tim Berners-Lee]] releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet. | File:Tim Berners-Lee (2009).jpg|link=Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|1991: Computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|Tim Berners-Lee]] releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet. | ||
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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.
1991: Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
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.