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||1907 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world. | ||1907 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world. | ||
||Lambros Demetrios Callimahos (b. December 16, 1910) was a US Army cryptologist. | |||
||1917 – Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer (d. 2008) | ||1917 – Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer (d. 2008) | ||
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1653: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1887: Polymath and crime-fighter Francis Galton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
1968: Jekyll, the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.