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||1903: George Davis Snell born ... geneticist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1903: George Davis Snell born ... geneticist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1908: Yvette Cauchois born ... physicist known for her contributions to x-ray spectroscopy and x-ray optics, and for pioneering European synchrotron research. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=yvette+cauchois


||1912: William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
||1912: William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.

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  • 1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.

    1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.

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    1901: Inventor and engineer Rudolf Hell born. He will invent the Hellschreiber teleprinter system.

  • 1953: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

    1953: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

  • 1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.

    1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.

  • 2015: Steganographic analysis of still images from the Toledo giant red ball incident video unexpectedly reveals a computer virus which "specifically targets this type of red ball, and undoubtedly caused its erratic behavior."

    2015: Steganographic analysis of still images from the Toledo giant red ball incident video unexpectedly reveals a computer virus which "specifically targets this type of red ball, and undoubtedly caused its erratic behavior."

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