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||1886 – Ida Barney, American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (d. 1982) | ||1886 – Ida Barney, American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (d. 1982) | ||
||Donald Lewes Hings, CM MBE (b. November 6, 1907) was a Canadian inventor. In 1937[1] he created a portable radio signaling system for his employer CM&S, which he called a "packset", but which later became known as the "Walkie-Talkie". | |||
||1928 – Arnold Rothstein, American mob boss (b. 1882) | ||1928 – Arnold Rothstein, American mob boss (b. 1882) | ||
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1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.