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||1876: Gilbert Ames Bliss born ... mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic. | ||1876: Gilbert Ames Bliss born ... mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic. | ||
||1877: James Irvine born ... organic chemist and Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews from 1921 until his death. As a research chemist, Irvine worked on the application of methylation techniques to carbohydrates, and isolated the first methylated sugars, trimethyl and tetramethyl glucose. Pic (movie star). | |||
||1882: Henry John Kaiser born ... industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. Pic. | ||1882: Henry John Kaiser born ... industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. Pic. | ||
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1469: Mathematician, astronomer, and gnomon-builder Paolo Toscanelli accuses the House of Malevecchio of secretly using the gnomon in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence to commit crimes against astronomical constants.
1746: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1963: Project West Ford launches, successfully deploying a ring of 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit, forming an artificial ionospheric radio communication system.
1972: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about how the Watergate scandal will play out.
1972: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1974: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged math criminal Skip Digits conducts debut performance of his new opera about impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Two Bugs Fighting unexpectedly releases self-replicating computer virus which spontaneously generates Extract of Radium.