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||1484: Joachim Vadian born ... physician, scholar, humanist, and politician. Pic. | ||1484: Joachim Vadian born ... physician, scholar, humanist, and politician. Pic. | ||
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||1970: The Isdal Woman (Norwegian: Isdalskvinnen) is found dead at Isdalen Valley in Bergen, Norway. Multiple investigations point to the possibility that she was a spy. Pic. | ||1970: The Isdal Woman (Norwegian: Isdalskvinnen) is found dead at Isdalen Valley in Bergen, Norway. Multiple investigations point to the possibility that she was a spy. Pic. | ||
||1984: Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest dies ... mathematician. Ehrenfest made contributions to De Bruijn sequences, low-discrepancy sequences, and the BEST theorem. Pic. | |||
||1992: Jean Dieudonné dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1992: Jean Dieudonné dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
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1590: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin dies, killed by a fall in attempting to let himself down from the window of his cell. His prolific and versatile genius produced a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters led to imprisonment.
1646: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Archbishop of Uppsala Laurentius Paulinus Gothus dies. He wrote numerous theological and astronomical works, and also published calendars.
1693: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian uses Pascaline to detect and prevent an acute outbreak crimes against mathematical constants.
1759: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaus I Bernoulli dies. He introduced a successful resolution to the St. Petersburg paradox.
1849: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming born. He will invent the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.
1877: Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1878: Allegedly haunted London cholera map stolen by alleged supervillain Abomynous; crime analysts forecast wave of cholera-related bank robberies.
1904: In a tour-de-force demonstration of thermionic diode technology, engineer and inventor John Ambrose Fleming delivers a lecture from within an experimental Fleming valve.
1918: Writer Madeleine L'Engle born. She will write the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.
1924: Composer Giacomo Puccini dies. He is remembered as "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
1955: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho suffers a partial meltdown during a coolant flow test.
2010: Computer scientist and physicist Maurice Wilkes dies. He pioneered several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars wins award for Best Reality TV Show.