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||1865: Benjamin Gompertz dies ... mathematician and statistician. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=benjamin+gompertz | ||1865: Benjamin Gompertz dies ... mathematician and statistician. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=benjamin+gompertz | ||
||1872: Albert Marque born ... sculptor and doll maker. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Marquet_(1875-1947),_c._1920s.jpg | ||1872: Albert Marque born ... sculptor and doll maker. DOD unknown. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Marquet_(1875-1947),_c._1920s.jpg | ||
||1874: André-Louis Debierne born ... chemist and is considered the discoverer of the element actinium. In 1910, he and Marie Curie prepared radium in metallic form in visible amounts. Pic. | ||1874: André-Louis Debierne born ... chemist and is considered the discoverer of the element actinium. In 1910, he and Marie Curie prepared radium in metallic form in visible amounts. Pic. | ||
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||1911: Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber born ... nuclear physicist. Goldhaber studied neutron-proton and neutron-nucleus reaction cross sections in 1941, and gamma radiation emission and absorption by nuclei in 1942. Around this time she also observed that spontaneous nuclear fission is accompanied by the release of neutrons — a result that had been theorized earlier but had yet to be shown. Pic. | ||1911: Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber born ... nuclear physicist. Goldhaber studied neutron-proton and neutron-nucleus reaction cross sections in 1941, and gamma radiation emission and absorption by nuclei in 1942. Around this time she also observed that spontaneous nuclear fission is accompanied by the release of neutrons — a result that had been theorized earlier but had yet to be shown. Pic. | ||
||1911: Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, lands his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House. He is later awarded a Gold medal from U.S. President William Howard Taft for this feat. | ||1911: Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, lands his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House. He is later awarded a Gold medal from U.S. President William Howard Taft for this feat. Pic. | ||
||1917: Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran born ... statistician who made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics. Pic. | ||1917: Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran born ... statistician who made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics. 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.
1993: Computer scientist, Gnomon algorithm researcher, and poet John T. Riedl gives an impromptu reading from his latest procedurally-generated poem "Why The Algorithm" at the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates fifty-second anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby of Mars.