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||1994: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured. | ||1994: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured. | ||
||2003: Anthony Poshepny dies ... CIA paramilitary officer in what is now called Special Activities Division (renamed Special Activities Center in 2016 [1]). He is best remembered for training the US-funded secret army in Laos during the Vietnam War. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=anthony+poshepny | |||
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2010: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]]. | File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2010: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]]. | ||
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1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1880: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
2010: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).