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||1952 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917). Assassination? | ||1952 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917). Assassination? | ||
||1957 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) | |||
||1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. | ||1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. | ||
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||Jerzy Neyman (d. August 5, 1981), born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish mathematician and statistician | ||Jerzy Neyman (d. August 5, 1981), born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish mathematician and statistician | ||
||2008 – Neil Bartlett, English-American chemist and academic (b. 1932) | |||
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1816: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
1901: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1910: Mathematician Julius Petersen dies. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs is a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1921: New version of Bernoulli family tree powered by cellular automata.
1920: Artist George Tooker born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
1981: Musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits begins North American tour.