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||1907: Michel Loève born ... probabilist and mathematical statistician. He is known in mathematical statistics and probability theory for the Karhunen–Loève theorem and Karhunen–Loève transform. Pic.
||1907: Michel Loève born ... probabilist and mathematical statistician. He is known in mathematical statistics and probability theory for the Karhunen–Loève theorem and Karhunen–Loève transform. Pic.


||1908: Lev Landau born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate .. made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.  
||1908: Lev Landau born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate .. made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. Pic.


||1917: William David McElroy born ... biochemist and academic administrator. He initiated an independent research program in bioluminescence, recruiting students to collect fireflies to perform experiments. He discovered the key role that luciferase and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) play in the process. Pic.
||1917: William David McElroy born ... biochemist and academic administrator. He initiated an independent research program in bioluminescence, recruiting students to collect fireflies to perform experiments. He discovered the key role that luciferase and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) play in the process. Pic.


||1922: Camille Jordan dies ... mathematician and academic.
||1922: Camille Jordan dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1927: Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
||1927: Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
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||1946: Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
||1946: Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.


||1951: Harald August Bohr dies ... mathematician and soccer player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr.
||1951: Harald August Bohr dies ... mathematician and soccer player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. Pic.


File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1953: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental [[scrying engine]] which unexpectedly previews the upcoming arrest of [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George Metesky]].
File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1953: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental [[scrying engine]] which unexpectedly previews the upcoming arrest of [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George Metesky]].

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