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||1995: Peter Maurice Wright dies ... principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency. His book Spycatcher became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies. Spycatcher was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed were serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into those. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Peter+Maurice+Wright | ||1995: Peter Maurice Wright dies ... principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency. His book Spycatcher became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies. Spycatcher was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed were serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into those. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Peter+Maurice+Wright | ||
||1996: William Colby dies ... intelligence officer, 10th Director of Central Intelligence. Pic. | |||
||2002: Felix Villars dies ... professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for the Pauli–Villars regularization, an important principle in quantum field theory Pic: http://news.mit.edu/2002/villars | ||2002: Felix Villars dies ... professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for the Pauli–Villars regularization, an important principle in quantum field theory Pic: http://news.mit.edu/2002/villars | ||
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1791: Painter and inventor Samuel Morse born. He will co-invent the Morse code.
1869: Only known copy of Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by Baron Zersetzung. Twain and War-Heels will soon team up to recover the illustration.
1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.
1937: Biochemist and crime-fighter John Kendrew uses data from X-ray crystallography experiments to predict and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl dies. He argued that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
1953: In a landmark criminal mathematics trial, an undercover Nomogram gives testimony against criminal mathematical functions Gnotilus and Forbidden Ratio.
1978: Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
1979: Orbital artificial intelligence AESOP makes contact with space activist and detective Gerard K. O'Neill.
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1992: Physicist and space activist Gerard Kitchen O'Neill dies. He invented particle storage rings and mass drivers; in the 1970s he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space.
2018: Signed first edition of Creature 4 sells for $500,000 USD in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.