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|File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 proud to represent [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer programs]] everywhere. | |File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 proud to represent [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer programs]] everywhere. | ||
||Alfred Theodor Brauer (d. December 23, 1985) was a German-American mathematician who did work in number theory. Pic. | |||
||1986 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling. | ||1986 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling. | ||
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1722: Mathematician and academic Pierre Varignon dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.
1822: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer born. He will design and invent submarines.
1948: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.