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File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax. | File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax. | ||
||1926: Charles Edward Ringling dies ... businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus. Pic (poster). | |||
||1926: Konrad Jörgens born ... German mathematician. He made important contributions to mathematical physics, in particular to the foundations of quantum mechanics, and to the theory of partial differential equations and integral operators. | ||1926: Konrad Jörgens born ... German mathematician. He made important contributions to mathematical physics, in particular to the foundations of quantum mechanics, and to the theory of partial differential equations and integral operators. | ||
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1616: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1878: Physicist John Tyndall uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to New Minneapolis in less than seven minutes.
1909: Electrical engineers John Havelock and Nikolai Tesla invent new data transmission protocols based on the work of mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis.
1910: Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
1911: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1924: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.
1965: Mathematician and crime-fighter Edward Lorenz publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: The Genesis spacecraft exposes its collector arrays, beginning collection of solar wind particles. The collection process will end after 850 days, on April 1, 2004, with the spacecraft completing five halo loops around L1.
2016: Signed first edition of Spiral 2 stolen from the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.