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File:Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann.jpg|link=Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|1939: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|Ferdinand von Lindemann]] dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number. | File:Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann.jpg|link=Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|1939: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|Ferdinand von Lindemann]] dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number. | ||
||1942: Yoji Totsuka born ... physicist | ||1942: Yoji Totsuka born ... physicist. Pic. | ||
||1944: Ernst Julius Cohen dies ... chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals. Pic. | ||1944: Ernst Julius Cohen dies ... chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals. Pic. | ||
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||1967: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. | ||1967: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. | ||
||1969: Ivan Emanuel Wallin dies ... biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory. Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man" | ||1969: Ivan Emanuel Wallin dies ... biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory. Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man". https://www.google.com/search?q=Ivan+Emanuel+Wallin | ||
||1970: An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three. | ||1970: An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three. Pic. | ||
||1975: For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. | ||1975: For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. | ||
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1665: The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
1846: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess warns the United States of America not to begin its upcoming Civil War ahead of schedule.
1847: Mathematician Cesare Arzelà born. He will contribute to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.
1876: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes uses continued fraction theory to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1921: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom born. He will contribute to statistical turbulence theory and random processes theory.
1939: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1981: Modern dance company Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the life of Ayn Rand.
1982: Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand dies.
2009: Priceless block of four Superimposed Fraunhofer stamps, stolen the year before by the Forbidden Ratio gang, recovered by APTO field agents.
2017: The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling awarded Pulitzer Prize, declared "the most entertaining illustration of the year."
2018: Signed first edition of Green Sprouts used in high-energy literature experiments spontaneously develops artificial intelligence.
