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||1924: Delbert Ray Fulkerson born ...mathematician who co-developed the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm, one of the most well-known algorithms to solve the maximum flow problem in networks. Pic. | ||1924: Delbert Ray Fulkerson born ...mathematician who co-developed the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm, one of the most well-known algorithms to solve the maximum flow problem in networks. Pic. | ||
||1930: Florian Cajori dies ... historian of mathematics. His ''A History of Mathematics'' (1894) was the first popular presentation of the history of mathematics in the United States; even today his 1928–1929 ''History of Mathematical Notations'' has been described as "unsurpassed". | |||
||1935: Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired. | ||1935: Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired. | ||
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||1941: World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. | ||1941: World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. | ||
||1958: Frédéric Joliot-Curie dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1954: Dr. Hugo Eckener dies ... the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history. He was also responsible for the construction of the most successful type of airships of all time. An anti-Nazi who was invited to campaign as a moderate in the German presidential elections, he was blacklisted by that regime and eventually sidelined. Pic. | ||
||1958: Frédéric Joliot-Curie dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1961: Henri Breuil dies ... archaeologist, who was an authority on Paleolithic cave paintings, especially in France and Spain. He was ordained a priest (1900). At various important sites, he diligently recorded cave art in colour reproductions. When making interpretations, and related them, he was careful to avoid unsubstantiated conclusions regarding the religious or social aspects of the primitive painters. In a classic paper (1912), he made a reclassification of Paleolithic industries. In 1940, he was the first to visit and describe Lascaux. After WW II, he travelled extensively in Africa for nearly six years examining and creating images of the art in thousands of rock shelters. Pic. | |||
||1967: UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. | ||1967: UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. | ||
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1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.
1738: Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre Bouguer uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against geology.
1777: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.
1843: Artist Eugène Delacroix publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on his study of the optical effects of color. He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related crimes against mathematical constants.
1888: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
1889: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in Periphery.
1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley dies. He designed and manufactured precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.
1910: "The Safe-Cracker does not show me committing a math crime," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."
2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule, which returned to Earth in 2006.