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||1993: Yvette Amice dies ... mathematician whose research concerned number theory and p-adic analysis. Pic: http://johnbcosgrave.com/archive/oxford.htm. | ||1993: Yvette Amice dies ... mathematician whose research concerned number theory and p-adic analysis. Pic: http://johnbcosgrave.com/archive/oxford.htm. | ||
||1997: Miguel Najdorf dies ... chess player and theoretician. Pic. | |||
||1997: NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars. | ||1997: NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars. | ||
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1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
1902: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate new data transmission protocol which functions as a psychological time machine.
1934: Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.
1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1982: Computer scientist and crime-fighter Joseph Weizenbaum publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.
1998: Signed first edition of Leonardo Draws Clock Head sells for one and a half million dollars.
2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2017: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Fireworks in the shape of Crimson Blossom make their debut at the annual Accession Day fireworks display in New Minneapolis, Canada.