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|File:Alien-cast.jpg|link=Alien (film) (nonfiction)|1979: Cast of ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]'' launches Kickstarter campaign to fund movie about ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''. | |File:Alien-cast.jpg|link=Alien (film) (nonfiction)|1979: Cast of ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]'' launches Kickstarter campaign to fund movie about ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''. | ||
||Boris Choubert or Schuberth (d. December 3, 1983) was a French geologist. An adept of Wegener's theory, he was the first to precisely reconstruct the layout of the continental masses of Africa, America, Europe and Greenland prior to the fragmentation of Pangaea, thirty years before the article generally credited for this discovery. Pic. | |||
||1984 – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. | ||1984 – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. | ||
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1616: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1909: Electrical engineers John Havelock and Nikolai Tesla invent new data transmission protocols based on the work of mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis.
1910: Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
1911: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1924: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.
1965: Mathematician and crime-fighter Edward Lorenz publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.