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||1901: Richard Dagobert Brauer born ... mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory. | ||1901: Richard Dagobert Brauer born ... mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory. | ||
||1902 | ||1902: Walter Houser Brattain born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||Lew Kowarski | ||1907: Lew Kowarski born ... physicist. He was a lesser known but important contributor to nuclear science. | ||
||Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh | ||1911: Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh born ... scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics. He was one of the key figures behind Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of USSR Keldysh was known with epithet "the Chief Theoretician". Pic. | ||
File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1912: Surgeon and scientist [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]] dies. He pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865. | File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1912: Surgeon and scientist [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]] dies. He pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865. | ||
|| | ||1913: Arnold Rudolf Karl Flammersfeld born ... nuclear physicist who worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II. Pic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iXfTp-p-IA | ||
|| | ||1923: Wilhelm Röntgen dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
|| | ||1924: Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove born ... physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Pic. | ||
||1944 | ||1936: Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh born ... statistician especially known for his contributions to sequential analysis. Pic. | ||
||1944: E. M. Antoniadi dies ... astronomer and chess player. | |||
File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1952: Inventor [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] dies. He was a pioneer of rotor encryption machines. | File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1952: Inventor [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] dies. He was a pioneer of rotor encryption machines. | ||
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File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1957: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1957: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1962 | ||1962: Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for. | ||
File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]] is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. | File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]] is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. | ||
||Eugen Sänger | ||1964: Eugen Sänger dies ... aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology. Pic (postage stamp). | ||
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1967: New isotope of [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] discovered, revealing secret history of the [[Manhattan Project]]. | File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1967: New isotope of [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] discovered, revealing secret history of the [[Manhattan Project]]. | ||
||Fritz John | ||1994: Fritz John dies ... mathematician specializing in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation. Pic. | ||
||1996 | ||1996: IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. | ||
||2009 | ||2009: The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. | ||
Green City Skyline.jpg|link=Green City Skyline (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green City Skyline (nonfiction)|Green City Skyline]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | Green City Skyline.jpg|link=Green City Skyline (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green City Skyline (nonfiction)|Green City Skyline]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1575: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Antonio Magini promotes the geocentric system of the world, failing to understand the nature of crimes against astronomical constants.
1630: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller René Descartes publishes new theory of mind and reason which anticipates modern Gnomon algorithm techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster dies.
1900: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1912: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister dies. He pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.
1952: Inventor Edward Hugh Hebern dies. He was a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.
1957: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, performs new work based on Gnomon algorithm functions.
1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1967: New isotope of Plutonium discovered, revealing secret history of the Manhattan Project.
2017: Green City Skyline voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.