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||1933 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate | ||1933 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate | ||
||Gale Ann Benson (b. 4 November 1944) was a British model, socialite and daughter of Conservative MP Leonard Plugge. She was buried alive and murdered in Trinidad by activist Michael X and members of his Black Power group. | |||
||1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA. | ||1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA. | ||
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1652: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter James Clerk Maxwell publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of crimes against mathematical constants.
1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.