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File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|1964: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. | File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|1964: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. | ||
||Agnes Meyer Driscoll (d. September 16, 1971), known as Miss Aggie or Madame X, was an American cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II. Edwin T. Layton described her as "without peer as a cryptanalyst". | |||
||1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897) | ||1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897) | ||
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1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
1964: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.
2006: Mathematician and crime-fighter Vladimir Arnold uses the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.