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File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court. | File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court. | ||
File:Luigi Galvani.jpg|link=Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|1796: Physician and physicist [[Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|Luigi Galvani]] uses principles of bioelectronics to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1838: Cleveland Abbe born ... meteorologist and academic. Pic. | ||1838: Cleveland Abbe born ... meteorologist and academic. Pic. | ||
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||1933: Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018). Pic. | ||1933: Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018). Pic. | ||
||1935: Patrick Carl Fischer born ... computer scientist, a noted researcher in computational complexity theory and database theory, and a target of the Unabomber. Pic: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/us/31fischer.html Pic search | ||1935: Patrick Carl Fischer born ... computer scientist, a noted researcher in computational complexity theory and database theory, and a target of the Unabomber. Pic: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/us/31fischer.html Pic search. | ||
||1938: Sally Shlaer born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic. | ||1938: Sally Shlaer born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic. | ||
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||1984: Mathematician and theorist Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin dies. Pic. | ||1984: Mathematician and theorist Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin dies. Pic. | ||
||1993: Lewis Thomas dies ... physician, etymologist, and academic. Pic search | ||1993: Lewis Thomas dies ... physician, etymologist, and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1999: NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. | ||1999: NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. | ||
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1616: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1796: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani uses principles of bioelectronics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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: First public demonstration of modern neon lighting, 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.