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||1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act. | ||1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act. | ||
||Shoichi Sakata (d. 16 October 1970) was a Japanese physicist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the structure of the atom. He proposed the Sakata model, which was an early precursor to the quark model. After the end of World War II, he joined other physicists in campaigning for the peaceful uses of nuclear power. | |||
||1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | ||1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | ||
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1584: Famed illustration Leonardo Draws Clock Head "is a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I remember them", says artist, inventor, and math detective Leonardo da Vinci.
1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for six million dollars.