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||1901: Mark Oliphant born ... physicist, humanitarian and politician, Governor of South Australia. Pic.
||1901: Mark Oliphant born ... physicist, humanitarian and politician, Governor of South Australia. Pic.
File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1907: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.


||1908: Hans Heilbronn born ... mathematician. He will prove that the class number of the number field {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} ({\sqrt {-d}})} \mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-d}) tends to plus infinity as {\displaystyle d} d does Pic: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/5965.html
||1908: Hans Heilbronn born ... mathematician. He will prove that the class number of the number field {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} ({\sqrt {-d}})} \mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-d}) tends to plus infinity as {\displaystyle d} d does Pic: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/5965.html


||1910: Helmut Kallmeyer born ... chemist and soldier.
||1910: Helmut Kallmeyer born ... chemist and soldier.
File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1907: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.


||1912: Saul Winstein born ... chemist who discovered the Winstein reaction. He argued a non-classical cation was needed to explain the stability of the norbornyl cation. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=saul+winstein
||1912: Saul Winstein born ... chemist who discovered the Winstein reaction. He argued a non-classical cation was needed to explain the stability of the norbornyl cation. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=saul+winstein
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||1994: Mathematician Brian Hartley dies.  He will specialize in group theory. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/brian-hartley/
||1994: Mathematician Brian Hartley dies.  He will specialize in group theory. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/brian-hartley/
||1995: British civil servant, intelligence officer, and spy John Cairncross dies. During the Second World War, he passed the information to the Soviets that influenced the Battle of Kursk. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five spy ring. Pic.


||1996: The U.S. Postal Service issued a special "Computer Technology" stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of the ENIAC. In a ceremony at the Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground, speakers paid tribute to computer pioneers with the image of a brain partially covered by small blocs that contain parts of circuit boards and binary language. The stamp was designed entirely on a computer.  
||1996: The U.S. Postal Service issued a special "Computer Technology" stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of the ENIAC. In a ceremony at the Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground, speakers paid tribute to computer pioneers with the image of a brain partially covered by small blocs that contain parts of circuit boards and binary language. The stamp was designed entirely on a computer.  
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File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|2009: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] uses spin foam models to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]], warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."
File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|2009: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] uses spin foam models to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]], warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."


||2014: Harden M. McConnell dies ... chemist and academic.
||2014: Harden M. McConnell dies ... chemist and academic ... contributed to the understanding of the relation between molecular electronic structure and electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra during the period of 1955 through 1965. After that, he developed the technique of spin-labels, whereby electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra can be used to study the structure and kinetics of proteins and membranes. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=harden+m.+mcconnell
 
||1923: Edgar Gilbert born ... mathematician and theorist. He contributed to the understanding of the relation between molecular electronic structure and electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra during the period of 1955 through 1965. After that, he developed the technique of spin-labels, whereby electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra can be used to study the structure and kinetics of proteins and membranes. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Edgar-Gilbert
 


File:Butterfly.jpg|link=Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|Butterfly]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:Butterfly.jpg|link=Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|Butterfly]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].

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  • 1860: Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.

    1860: Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.

  • 1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.

    1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.

  • 1924: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.

    1924: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.

  • 1925: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess stolen by math criminals.

    1925: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess stolen by math criminals.

  • 1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter Joseph Wedderburn the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter Joseph Wedderburn the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

    1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

  • 1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu.

    1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu.

  • 1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

    1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

  • 2009: Physicist and crime-fighter Tullio Regge uses spin foam models to detect and prevent crimes against physics, warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."

    2009: Physicist and crime-fighter Tullio Regge uses spin foam models to detect and prevent crimes against physics, warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."

  • 2016: Butterfly voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2016: Butterfly voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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