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||1871: George Udny Yule born ... statistician. He will make important contributions to the theory and practice of correlation, regression, and association, as well as to time series analysis. He pioneered the use of preferential attachment stochastic processes to explain the origin of power law distribution. The Yule distribution, a discrete power law, is named after him. Pic.
||1871: George Udny Yule born ... statistician. He will make important contributions to the theory and practice of correlation, regression, and association, as well as to time series analysis. He pioneered the use of preferential attachment stochastic processes to explain the origin of power law distribution. The Yule distribution, a discrete power law, is named after him. Pic.


||1880: Nikolay Zinin dies ... organic chemist.
||1880: Nikolay Zinin dies ... organic chemist. Pic: Extreme Moustache!


File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] publishes new theory of mathematical analysis with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.  
File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] publishes new theory of mathematical analysis with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.  
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||1981: Jack Northrop dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation ... Flying wing.
||1981: Jack Northrop dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation ... Flying wing.
||1995: Thede Palm dies ... Swedish historian of religion, director of research and head of military intelligence. Pic search.


||2001: FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
||2001: FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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