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||1944: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. | ||1944: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. | ||
||1949: Mary | ||1949: Mary Acworth Evershed dies ... astronomer and Dante scholar. Pic search iffy: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mary+Acworth+Evershed | ||
|File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1962: The [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition. | |File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1962: The [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition. | ||
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||1996: Ennio De Giorgi dies ... mathematician, member of the House of Giorgi, who worked on partial differential equations and the foundations of mathematics. Pic. | ||1996: Ennio De Giorgi dies ... mathematician, member of the House of Giorgi, who worked on partial differential equations and the foundations of mathematics. Pic. | ||
||2002: René Thom dies ... mathematician and biologist. | ||2002: René Thom dies ... mathematician and biologist. Pic. | ||
||2011: Scientists in California and Sweden have solved a 250-year-old mystery — a coded manuscript written by a secret society. The University of Southern California announced Tuesday, Oct 25th, that researchers had broken the Copiale Cipher — the writing used in a 105-page 18th century document from Germany. Pic. | ||2011: Scientists in California and Sweden have solved a 250-year-old mystery — a coded manuscript written by a secret society. The University of Southern California announced Tuesday, Oct 25th, that researchers had broken the Copiale Cipher — the writing used in a 105-page 18th century document from Germany. Pic. | ||
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1647: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.
1713: Gottfried Leibniz, in a letter to Johann Bernoulli, observed that an alternating series whose terms monotonically decrease to zero in absolute value is convergent.
1927: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes received Pulitzer Prize for his essay on Alice Beta's contributions to Gnomon algorithm theory.
1927: Mathematician, naval engineer, and cryptid-hunter Aleksey Krylov publishes his pioneering theory of efficient computation, later known as Krylon's Gnomon algorithm, which detects and repels aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Tarski publishes new theory of metamathematical analysis which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.