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||1880 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793) | ||1880 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793) | ||
||Earle C. Anthony (b. 1880) was an American businessman and philanthropist based in Los Angeles, California who worked in broadcasting and automobiles. He was also a songwriter, journalist and playwright. | |||
||Sir Charles Galton Darwin, KBE, MC, FRS[1] (b. 18 December 1887) was an English physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War.[2] He was the son of the mathematician George Howard Darwin and a grandson of Charles Darwin. | ||Sir Charles Galton Darwin, KBE, MC, FRS[1] (b. 18 December 1887) was an English physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War.[2] He was the son of the mathematician George Howard Darwin and a grandson of Charles Darwin. | ||
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1799: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla dies. His deep interest in history of mathematics became apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.
1956: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "math-crimes complex."
1958: Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
1965: Antikythera Team invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and reverse crimes against mathematical constants.
1966: Accidental release of nuclear weapons precipitates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1995: Physicist Nathan Rosen dies. He developed the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.
2016: Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Prison unable to contain supervillain Abomynous.
