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||1994: Solomon Kullback dies ... cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov. Pic. | ||1994: Solomon Kullback dies ... cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov. Pic. | ||
File:Solomon Kullback.jpg|link=Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|1994: Cryptanalyst and mathematician [[Solomon Kullback (nonfiction)|Solomon Kullback]] dies. Krullback began his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) was formed in 1952, Rowlett become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis. | |||
||2008: Neil Bartlett dies ... chemist and academic. Synthesized first noble gas compounds. Pic. | ||2008: Neil Bartlett dies ... chemist and academic. Synthesized first noble gas compounds. Pic. | ||
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1816: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
1901: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1910: Mathematician Julius Petersen dies. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs is a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1921: New version of Bernoulli family tree powered by cellular automata.
1920: Artist George Tooker born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
1981: Musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits begins North American tour.
1994: Cryptanalyst and mathematician Solomon Kullback dies. Krullback began his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) was formed in 1952, Rowlett become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis.
2018: Creature 3 voted Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.