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||1917: The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for ''Julia Ward Howe''). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work ''With Americans of Past and Present Days''. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the ''New York World''. | ||1917: The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for ''Julia Ward Howe''). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work ''With Americans of Past and Present Days''. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the ''New York World''. | ||
||1922: W. H. R. Rivers dies ... anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist | ||1922: W. H. R. Rivers dies ... anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist. | ||
||1926: Victor Prather born ... flight surgeon famous for taking part in "Project RAM", a government project to develop the space suit. On May 4, 1961, Prather drowned during the helicopter transfer after the landing of the Strato-Lab V balloon flight, which set an altitude record for manned balloon flight which stood until 2012. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Victor+Prather | |||
||1936: Yvette Amice born ... mathematician whose research concerned number theory and p-adic analysis. Pic: http://johnbcosgrave.com/archive/oxford.htm. | ||1936: Yvette Amice born ... mathematician whose research concerned number theory and p-adic analysis. Pic: http://johnbcosgrave.com/archive/oxford.htm. | ||
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1472: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler Nezahualcoyotl dies. He had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed.
1769: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil's hopes are dashed when, after years of struggle, overcast conditions prevent him from making a critical observation.
1783: The Montgolfier brothers give first public demonstration of balloon flight.
1943: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses punched card computation to forecast the position of German submarine U-505 a year in advance, giving the U.S. Navy a strategic advantage in the Second World War.
1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1992: Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) dies. He contributed to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Red Spiral 3 accidentally releases the notorious criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.