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File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant. | File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant. | ||
||1945 | ||1945: Hans Geiger dies ... physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter. | ||
||1957 | ||1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. | ||
||1960 | ||1960: USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched. | ||
||Pauline Sperry | ||1967: Pauline Sperry dies ... mathematician. Sperry was an active Quaker and involved in various humanitarian and political causes. At the height of McCarthyism, the Board of Regents required university employees to sign a loyalty oath. Sperry, Hans Lewy, and others who refused were barred from teaching without pay in 1950. In the case Tolman v. Underhill, the California Supreme Court ruled in 1952 the loyalty oath unconstitutional and reinstated those who refused to sign. Sperry was reinstated with back pay and the title emeritus associate professor. Pic. | ||
||1979 | ||1979: CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service. | ||
File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|1999: Writer, editor, and actor [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] publishes his account of personally committing [[math crimes]] "for the participatory journalistic experience." | File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|1999: Writer, editor, and actor [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] publishes his account of personally committing [[math crimes]] "for the participatory journalistic experience." | ||
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|File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] the neutron scattering technique to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] the neutron scattering technique to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1993 | ||1993: Bruno Pontecorvo dies ... physicist and academic. | ||
||Wolfgang Kurt Hermann "Pief" Panofsky | ||2007: Wolfgang Kurt Hermann "Pief" Panofsky dies ... physicist | ||
||2014 | ||2014: Madis Kõiv dies ... physicist, philosopher, and author. | ||
||2014 | ||2014: The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully inserted into orbit of Mars | ||
||Peter P. Sorokin | ||2015: Peter P. Sorokin dies ... physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. Pic. | ||
Violet_Spiral_2.jpg|link=Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral 2]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color [[Violet (nonfiction)]]. | |||
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1501: Gerolamo Cardano born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.
1624: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier Clock Head uses Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1625: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt born. He will derive the basic properties of quadratic forms, an important step in the field of linear algebra.
1934: Writer and peace activist John Brunner born.
1937: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program.
1938: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.
1999: Writer, editor, and actor George Plimpton publishes his account of personally committing math crimes "for the participatory journalistic experience."
2018: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color Violet (nonfiction).