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||1918: Maxime Bôcher dies ... mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him. | ||1918: Maxime Bôcher dies ... mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him. | ||
||1923: Jules Violle dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1923: Jules Violle dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jules+violle | ||
||1927: Sarah Frances Whiting dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic. | ||1927: Sarah Frances Whiting dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic. | ||
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||1952: Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia. | ||1952: Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia. | ||
||1953: Hugo Schmeisser dies ... weapons designer and engineer. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=hugo+schmeisser | |||
||1959: The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon. | ||1959: The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon. | ||
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1725: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
2017: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins Pulitzer Prize.
2018: Green Sprouts voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
