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File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1906: Astronomer and academic [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.
File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1906: Astronomer and academic [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.
||Sid Sackson (b. February 4, 1920) was an American board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game Acquire.


||1921 – Lotfi Zadeh, Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic (d. 2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html
||1921 – Lotfi Zadeh, Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic (d. 2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html

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  • 1889: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to manipulate the royal family.

    1889: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to manipulate the royal family.

  • 1902: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.

    1902: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.

  • 1906: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.

    1906: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.

  • 1923: Mathematician Karl Menger uses scrying engine techniques to attend virtual lecture by Donald Knuth.

    1923: Mathematician Karl Menger uses scrying engine techniques to attend virtual lecture by Donald Knuth.

  • 1928: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

    1928: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

  • 1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

    1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

  • 1994: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1994: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

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