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||1940: Raymond Pearl dies ... biologist and academic ... eugenics, biostatistics. Pic. | ||1940: Raymond Pearl dies ... biologist and academic ... eugenics, biostatistics. Pic. | ||
||1945: Operation Deadlight begins. Deadlight was a code name for the Royal Navy operation to scuttle German U-boats surrendered to the Allies after the defeat of Germany near the end of World War II. Of the 156 U-boats that surrendered to the allies at the end of the war, 116 were scuttled as part of Operation Deadlight. | |||
||1947: Emil Racoviță dies ... biologist, zoologist, speleologist, academic, explorer of Antarctica and the first biologist study arctic life. Pic. | ||1947: Emil Racoviță dies ... biologist, zoologist, speleologist, academic, explorer of Antarctica and the first biologist study arctic life. Pic. | ||
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1790: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1894: John Venn invents new Demon-hunting diagram, leading to arrest of serial killer H. H. Holmes.
1894: H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
1924: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz born. A "documentalist", she was particularly known for her work in thesaurus construction and machine-aided indexing, innovating techniques for punch card information retrieval.
1925: Mathematician and social activist Alice Beta interviews famed inventor and data processing pioneer Herman Hollerith.
1929: Inventor Herman Hollerith dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
1949: Mathematician and crime-fighter Aleksandr Khinchin publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on modern probability theory which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: Industrialist, military contractor, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung privately advises Richard Nixon to "tell the reporters that you are not a crook."
1973: Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
1973: In Washington, D.C., composer and alleged math criminal Skip Digits tells 400 Associated Press managing editors that "Richard Nixon is not a crook."
1990: Physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter dies. He shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
2018: Signed first edition of Green Tangle 4 used in routine high-energy literature experiment unexpected develops artificial intelligence.