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||2006: Alan Kotok dies ... computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Early hacker. Pic. | ||2006: Alan Kotok dies ... computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Early hacker. Pic. | ||
||2010: First flight of the Boeing X-51 Waverider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51_Waverider Pic. | |||
||2015: Robert Kraft dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||2015: Robert Kraft dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||
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1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.
1814: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler born. He will invent the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.
2016: New autobiography by Didacus automaton accuses Baron Zersetzung of crimes against mathematical constants.
1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born.
1936: Enrico Fermi publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.