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||1989: Sydney Goldstein dies ... mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics, notably his work on steady-flow laminar boundary-layer equations and on the turbulent resistance to rotation of a disk in a fluid. Goldstein also contributed to aerodynamics. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/sydney-goldstein/
||1989: Sydney Goldstein dies ... mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics, notably his work on steady-flow laminar boundary-layer equations and on the turbulent resistance to rotation of a disk in a fluid. Goldstein also contributed to aerodynamics. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/sydney-goldstein/
||2001: Anne Burns born ... aeronautical engineer and glider pilot. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=anne+burns


||1921: Bill Mauldin dies ... soldier and cartoonist.  Mauldin gained fame — and two Pulitzer prizes — for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field. Pic.
||1921: Bill Mauldin dies ... soldier and cartoonist.  Mauldin gained fame — and two Pulitzer prizes — for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field. Pic.

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