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File:E. Howard Hunt.jpg|link=E. Howard Hunt (nonfiction)|2007: CIA officer and author [[E. Howard Hunt (nonfiction)|E. Howard Hunt]] dies. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt plotted the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration]]. | File:E. Howard Hunt.jpg|link=E. Howard Hunt (nonfiction)|2007: CIA officer and author [[E. Howard Hunt (nonfiction)|E. Howard Hunt]] dies. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt plotted the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration]]. | ||
||2008: Bobby Fischer dies ... chess player and author. | ||2008: Bobby Fischer dies ... chess player and author. Pic. | ||
||2010: Industrial accident: On the afternoon of Saturday, January 23, 2010, Carl “Danny” Fish, a 32-year employee of the DuPont plant in Belle, West Virginia was performing a routine operation when a hose carrying phosgene (a chemical so toxic it was used as a weapon during World War I) ruptured, spraying him in the face and chest. Fish was rushed to the hospital. He died the night of January 24. | ||2010: Industrial accident: On the afternoon of Saturday, January 23, 2010, Carl “Danny” Fish, a 32-year employee of the DuPont plant in Belle, West Virginia was performing a routine operation when a hose carrying phosgene (a chemical so toxic it was used as a weapon during World War I) ruptured, spraying him in the face and chest. Fish was rushed to the hospital. He died the night of January 24. | ||
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||2016: Dmitry Vasil'evich Shirkov dies ... theoretical physicist, known for his contribution to quantum field theory and to the development of the renormalization group method. Pic. | ||2016: Dmitry Vasil'evich Shirkov dies ... theoretical physicist, known for his contribution to quantum field theory and to the development of the renormalization group method. Pic. | ||
||2018: Nicanor Parra dies ... physicist, mathematician, and poet. Parra was a professor of theoretical physics in Santiago, and read his poetry in England, France, Russia, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States; his poetic language renounced the refinement of most Latin American literature and adopted a more colloquial tone. Pic. | |||
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1656: Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1805: Inventor Claude Chappe dies. He invented and developed a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
1854: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker discovers new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1862: Mathematician David Hilbert born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
1862: Glassblower, physicist, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Johann Geißler demonstrates an advanced version of the Geissler tube which acts as a simple scrying engine, using low pressure gas-discharge luminescence as a remote-input-output modulator.
1898: Electrical engineer and inventor Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger dies. He invented the first successful alternating current electrical meter, which was critical to the general acceptance of AC power.
1941: Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1967: John Brunner uses scrying engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1973: United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
1974: Mathematician, academic, and crime-fighter Werner Fenchel publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use nonlinear programming techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2003: A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted.
2007: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt dies. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.
2015: Tequila Sunrise voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
