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||2001: War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States. | ||2001: War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States. | ||
||2010: Allan Sandage dies ... astronomer and cosmologist. | ||2010: Allan Sandage dies ... astronomer and cosmologist. Pic. | ||
||2012: A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific | ||2012: A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific | ||
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1705: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1841: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
1962: Mathematician and APTO Chancellor Hanna Neumann co-publishes Wreath products and varieties of Gnomon algorithm groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter).
1969: Actor Gerard Butler born.
2013: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
2014: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.
2017: Action-adventure film London Has Swollen opens to rave reviews.