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||1976 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895) | ||1976 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895) | ||
||Richard Dagobert Brauer (d. April 17, 1977) was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory. | |||
||1996 – Piet Hein, Danish poet and mathematician (b. 1905) | ||1996 – Piet Hein, Danish poet and mathematician (b. 1905) | ||
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1627: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat writes a marginal note about a "Last Last Theorem" which will "surely solve all cases of [[crimes against mathematical contants, both past and future."
1938: Philosopher and author Kerry Wendell Thornley born. In 1962 he will write a manuscript, The Idle Warriors, about his aquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.
1957: Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use with Project SCORE satellite.
1958: Project SCORE satellite incorporates virtual Nebra sky disk as backup navigation system.
1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1968: Alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung takes possession of a large quantity of military-grade Clandestiphrine.
1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.