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||1928 – SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned. | ||1928 – SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned. | ||
||Norman Woodason Johnson (b. November 12, 1930) was a mathematician. In 1966 he enumerated 92 convex non-uniform polyhedra with regular faces. Victor Zalgaller later proved (1969) that Johnson's list was complete; the complete set is now known as the Johnson solids. Pic. | |||
||Sir Dugald Clerk (d. 1932) was a Scottish engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine in 1878. Pic. | ||Sir Dugald Clerk (d. 1932) was a Scottish engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine in 1878. Pic. | ||
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1608: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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1941: New York mobster and hit man Abe Reles dies.
1942: Mathematician and soldier Janet Beta discovers evidence Colonel Zersetzung is secretly diverting government-issued Extract of Radium for his personal use.
1944: Mathematician George David Birkhoff dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.
1946: Military officer and alleged crime bos Colonel Zersetzung uses Extract of Radium to secretly synthesize illegal Clandestiphrine.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.
1989: AESOP predicts that Tim Berners-Lee will propose the World Wide Web one year from today.
1990: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.