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||1872: Morris Travers born ... chemist and academic ... "rare gas man". Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Morris+Travers
||1872: Morris Travers born ... chemist and academic ... "rare gas man". Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Morris+Travers


||1877: Johann Christian Poggendorff dies ... physicist and journalist.
||1877: Johann Christian Poggendorff dies ... physicist and journalist. Pic.


File:Heinrich Geissler.jpg|link=Heinrich Geißler (nonfiction)|1879: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor [[Heinrich Geißler (nonfiction)|Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler]] dies. He invented the [[Geissler tube (nonfiction)|Geissler tube]], made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.
File:Heinrich Geissler.jpg|link=Heinrich Geißler (nonfiction)|1879: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor [[Heinrich Geißler (nonfiction)|Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler]] dies. He invented the [[Geissler tube (nonfiction)|Geissler tube]], made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.


||1888: Ernst Heinkel born ... engineer and businessman, founded the Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company.
||1888: Ernst Heinkel born ... engineer and businessman, founded the Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company. Pic.


||1902: Oskar Morgenstern born ... economist. In collaboration with mathematician John von Neumann, he founded the mathematical field of game theory and its application to economics Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=oskar+morgenstern&oq=Oskar+Morgenstern
||1902: Oskar Morgenstern born ... economist. In collaboration with mathematician John von Neumann, he founded the mathematical field of game theory and its application to economics Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=oskar+morgenstern&oq=Oskar+Morgenstern


||1908: Hans Heinrich von Halban born ... physicist.
||1908: Hans Heinrich von Halban born ... physicist. Pic.


||1912: Nils Aall Barricelli born ... mathematician. His computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution are considered pioneering in artificial life research.  Pic.
||1912: Nils Aall Barricelli born ... mathematician. His computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution are considered pioneering in artificial life research.  Pic.

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  • 1798: Mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt born. He will use synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.

    1798: Mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt born. He will use synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.

  • 1879: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler dies. He invented the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.

    1879: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler dies. He invented the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.

  • 1960: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises funds for new film about the upcoming Goldsboro B-52 crash.

    1960: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises funds for new film about the upcoming Goldsboro B-52 crash.

  • 1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.

    1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.

  • 1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that the Goldsboro B-52 crash is a sound business investment."

    1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that the Goldsboro B-52 crash is a sound business investment."

  • 1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.

    1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.

  • 1988: Mathematician and academic Werner Fenchel dies. He established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.

    1988: Mathematician and academic Werner Fenchel dies. He established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.

  • 2016: John Hoyland's Lebanon stolen in broad daylight by alleged supervillain Gnotilus.

    2016: John Hoyland's Lebanon stolen in broad daylight by alleged supervillain Gnotilus.

  • 2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies.

    2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies.

  • 2018: Steganographic analysis of Blue Foliage unexpectedly reveals "at least four hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2018: Steganographic analysis of Blue Foliage unexpectedly reveals "at least four hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 2017: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants," says mathematician and crime-fighter Janet Beta.

    2017: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants," says mathematician and crime-fighter Janet Beta.

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