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||1900: Giuseppe Zangara born ... Zangara will fatally shoot Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Pic. | ||1900: Giuseppe Zangara born ... Zangara will fatally shoot Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Pic. | ||
||1909: Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft. | ||1909: Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft. Pic. | ||
||1913: Alexander Yakovlevich Lerner born ... scientist and Soviet refusenik. Cybernetics. Pic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 | ||1913: Alexander Yakovlevich Lerner born ... scientist and Soviet refusenik. Cybernetics. Pic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 | ||
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||1940: World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights | ||1940: World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights | ||
||1954: Bud Fisher dies ... cartoonist. Pic. | |||
||1956: Otto Yulyevich Schmidt dies ... scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician, Hero of the USSR (27 June 1937), and member of the Communist Party. Pic. | ||1956: Otto Yulyevich Schmidt dies ... scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician, Hero of the USSR (27 June 1937), and member of the Communist Party. Pic. | ||
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1914: Physicist and philosopher James Van Allen born. The Van Allen radiation belts will be named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.
1926: Steganographic analysis of The Safe-Cracker reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor Philo Farnsworth.
1928: Mathematician and crime-fighter Abraham Fraenkel publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on axiomatic set theory, which he uses to detect and counteract crimes against mathematical constants.
1930: Mathematician Kurt Godel announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem -- that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic -- in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle.
1985: Mathematician George Pólya dies. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2017: Signed first edition of Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus sells for two million dollars.
2018: Green Tangle 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.