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||1695: Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho. No DOB. Pic: bust. | ||1695: Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho. No DOB. Pic: bust. | ||
||1715: Pierre Charles Le Monnier born ... astronomer and author. Pic. | |||
||1737: José Antonio Alzate y Ramírez born ... priest, scientist, historian, cartographer, and journalist. Pic. | ||1737: José Antonio Alzate y Ramírez born ... priest, scientist, historian, cartographer, and journalist. Pic. | ||
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1917: Leonard Jimmie Savage born ... mathematician and statistician. Savage's most noted work was the 1954 book ''The Foundations of Statistics'', in which he put forward a theory of subjective and personal probability and statistics which forms one of the strands underlying Bayesian statistics and has applications to game theory. He was one the participants to the Macy conferences on cybernetics. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=leonard+jimmie+savage | 1917: Leonard Jimmie Savage born ... mathematician and statistician. Savage's most noted work was the 1954 book ''The Foundations of Statistics'', in which he put forward a theory of subjective and personal probability and statistics which forms one of the strands underlying Bayesian statistics and has applications to game theory. He was one the participants to the Macy conferences on cybernetics. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=leonard+jimmie+savage | ||
File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] born. | File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] born. He will be one of the first to use computer graphics to create and display fractal geometric images, leading to his discovery of the Mandelbrot set in 1980. | ||
||1925: George Barris born ... engineer and car designer. Pic. | ||1925: George Barris born ... engineer and car designer. Pic. | ||
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File:Lake Peigneur waterfall.png|link=Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|1980: [[Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|Lake Peigneur]] drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. | File:Lake Peigneur waterfall.png|link=Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|1980: [[Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|Lake Peigneur]] drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. | ||
File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1980: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] flies by Saturn, completing its primary mission. | File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1980: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] flies by Saturn, completing its primary mission. | ||
||1984: Charles Cameron Conley dies ... mathematician who worked on dynamical systems. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Charles+Cameron+Conley | ||1984: Charles Cameron Conley dies ... mathematician who worked on dynamical systems. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Charles+Cameron+Conley | ||
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||2000: Mike Muuss dies ... computer programmer, created Ping. Pic. | ||2000: Mike Muuss dies ... computer programmer, created Ping. Pic. | ||
File: | File:Voronoi-diagram-color-commentators.jpg|link=Fantasy Voronoi diagram|2019: Recent survey shows that [[Fantasy Voronoi diagram]] is more popular than [[Fantasy football (American) (nonfiction)|Fantasy American Football]]. | ||
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1820: An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. Stranded thousands of miles from the coast of South America with little food and water, the 20-man crew was forced to make for land in the ship's surviving whaleboats; eight men survived the ordeal.
1889: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble born. He will discover the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
1908: Mathematician Georgy Voronoy (Voronoi) dies. He invented what are today called Voronoi diagrams or Voronoi tessellations, which partition a plane into regions close to each of a given set of objects.
1924: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot born. He will be one of the first to use computer graphics to create and display fractal geometric images, leading to his discovery of the Mandelbrot set in 1980.
1934: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Willem de Sitter dies. He co-authored a paper with Albert Einstein in 1932 in which they discuss the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of the universe.
1980: Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
1980: Voyager 1 flies by Saturn, completing its primary mission.
2019: Recent survey shows that Fantasy Voronoi diagram is more popular than Fantasy American Football.