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1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
1902: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate new data transmission protocol which functions as a psychological time machine.
1934: Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.
1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1982: Computer scientist and crime-fighter Joseph Weizenbaum publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.
1998: Signed first edition of Leonardo Draws Clock Head sells for one and a half million dollars.
2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2017: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

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+||1956: John Wishart dies ... mathematician and agricultural statistician. He first formulated a generalised product-moment distribution named the Wishart distribution in his honor, in 1928. Pic.
 ||1961: On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.