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File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1964: Anthropologist, ethnologist, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] philosopher [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] is awarded the Anthropologist of the Year prize by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1964: Anthropologist, ethnologist, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] philosopher [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] is awarded the Anthropologist of the Year prize by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
File:Long Shot film still.jpg|link=Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1965: ''[[Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Long Shot]]'' nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States. | File:Long Shot film still.jpg|link=Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1965: ''[[Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Long Shot]]'' nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska (51.43709°N 179.18032°E). It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States. Amchitka Island, Alaska (80 kilotons). The Department of Defense occupied Amchitka from 1964 to 1966, with the AEC providing the device, measuring instruments, and scientific support. | ||
||1969: The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. | ||1969: The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. |
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1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
1964: Anthropologist, ethnologist, and Gnomon algorithm philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss is awarded the Anthropologist of the Year prize by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
1965: Long Shot nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska (51.43709°N 179.18032°E). It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States. Amchitka Island, Alaska (80 kilotons). The Department of Defense occupied Amchitka from 1964 to 1966, with the AEC providing the device, measuring instruments, and scientific support.
2004: Mathematician and entomologist Peter Twinn dies. During the Second World War, he was the first professional mathematician recruited by the British Government Code and Cypher School. Twinn was also the first British cryptographer to read a German military Enigma message, having obtained vital information from Polish cryptanalysts in July 1939. Twinn said that "It was a trifling exercise, but I repeat for the umpteenth time, no credit to me."
2016: Steganographic analysis of Swamp Thing unexpectedly reveals "at least five hundred, perhaps six hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.