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||1847: Richard March Hoe, American inventor, patented the rotary-type printing press.
||1847: Richard March Hoe, American inventor, patented the rotary-type printing press.


||1851: Friedrich Schottky born ... mathematician and theorist.
||1851: Friedrich Schottky born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.


||1856: Émile Picard born ... mathematician and academic.
||1856: Émile Picard born ... mathematician and academic.


||Paul Epstein (b. July 24, 1871) was a German mathematician. He was known for his contributions to number theory, in particular the Epstein zeta function. Epstein was appointed to a non-tenured post at the university and he lectured in Frankfurt from 1919. Later he was appointed professor at Frankfurt. However, after the Nazis came to power in Germany he lost his university position. Because of his age he was unable to find a new position abroad, and finally committed suicide by barbital overdose at Dornbusch, fearing Gestapo torture because he was a Jew. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Epstein
||1871: Mathematician and astronomer William Duncan MacMillan born - he researched applications of classical mechanics to astronomy, and is noted for pioneering speculations on physical cosmology.
 
||1871: Paul Epstein born ... mathematician. He was known for his contributions to number theory, in particular the Epstein zeta function. Epstein was appointed to a non-tenured post at the university and he lectured in Frankfurt from 1919. Later he was appointed professor at Frankfurt. However, after the Nazis came to power in Germany he lost his university position. Because of his age he was unable to find a new position abroad, and finally committed suicide by barbital overdose at Dornbusch, fearing Gestapo torture because he was a Jew. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Epstein


||1877: Calogero Vizzini born ... mob boss.
||1877: Calogero Vizzini born ... mob boss.


||1889: Agnes Meyer Driscoll born ... cryptanalyst. Pic.
||1889: Agnes Meyer Driscoll born ... cryptanalyst. Pic.
File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1896: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] receives shipment of [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]] from the future.


File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1897: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] born. She will set many records, write best-selling books about her flying experiences, and be instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1897: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] born. She will set many records, write best-selling books about her flying experiences, and be instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.


File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1899: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|new data transmission protocols]] which will be useful in predicting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1898: TODO: Henrietta Bolt ...


||1900: Zoltán Lajos Bay born ... physicist, professor, and engineer who developed technologies, including tungsten lamps and microwave devices. Pic.
||1900: Zoltán Lajos Bay born ... physicist, professor, and engineer who developed technologies, including tungsten lamps and microwave devices. Pic.
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||1903: Marcus Morton Rhoades born ... cytogeneticist. His research on maize led to important discoveries for basic genetics and the applied science of plant breeding. He was one of the first cytogenecists to document the pre-meiotic pairing of homologous chromosomes in maize, otherwise referred as somatic pairing (Singh, 2003), and the first to document an instance of meiotic drive, a Mendelian inheritance caused by preferential segregation of certain versions of homologous chromosomes during meiosis. Rhoades' also pioneered work in nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions.  Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/5859/chapter/18
||1903: Marcus Morton Rhoades born ... cytogeneticist. His research on maize led to important discoveries for basic genetics and the applied science of plant breeding. He was one of the first cytogenecists to document the pre-meiotic pairing of homologous chromosomes in maize, otherwise referred as somatic pairing (Singh, 2003), and the first to document an instance of meiotic drive, a Mendelian inheritance caused by preferential segregation of certain versions of homologous chromosomes during meiosis. Rhoades' also pioneered work in nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions.  Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/5859/chapter/18


||1909: Jerzy Witold Różycki born ... mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II. Pic.
Jerzy_Rozycki.jpg|link=Jerzy Różycki|1909: Mathematician and cryptologist [[Jerzy Różycki (nonfiction)|Jerzy Różycki]] born. Różycki will work at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II.
 
||1913: Britton Chance born ... biologist and sailor. Pic.


||1914: Frances Oldham Kelsey born ... pharmacologist and physician ... thalidomide intervention.
||1914: Frances Oldham Kelsey born ... pharmacologist and physician ... thalidomide intervention. Pic.


||1923: George Daniel Mostow born ... mathematician, renowned for his contributions to Lie theory. The rigidity phenomenon for lattices in Lie groups he discovered and explored is known as Mostow rigidity.  Pic: https://news.yale.edu/2013/01/25/conversation-george-daniel-mostow-geometer-nth-dimension
||1923: George Daniel Mostow born ... mathematician, renowned for his contributions to Lie theory. The rigidity phenomenon for lattices in Lie groups he discovered and explored is known as Mostow rigidity.  Pic: https://news.yale.edu/2013/01/25/conversation-george-daniel-mostow-geometer-nth-dimension
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||1959: At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
||1959: At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
||1964: Erwin Finlay-Freundlich dies ... astronomer, a pupil of Felix Klein. Freundlich was a working associate of Albert Einstein and introduced experiments for which the general theory of relativity could be tested by astronomical observations based on the gravitational redshift. Pic.


||1969: Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
||1969: Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for his next film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]].


File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the Supreme Court justices murdered, as a lesson to the others."


||1974: James Chadwick dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1974: James Chadwick dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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||1983: Eberhard Frederich Ferdinand Hopf dies ... mathematician and astronomer, one of the founding fathers of ergodic theory and a pioneer of bifurcation theory who also made significant contributions to the subjects of partial differential equations and integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry.  Pic.
||1983: Eberhard Frederich Ferdinand Hopf dies ... mathematician and astronomer, one of the founding fathers of ergodic theory and a pioneer of bifurcation theory who also made significant contributions to the subjects of partial differential equations and integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry.  Pic.


||1986: Fritz Albert Lipmann dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1986: Fritz Albert Lipmann dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1999: Gerrit Lekkerkerker dies ... mathematician. Pic.
||1999: Gerrit Lekkerkerker dies ... mathematician. Pic.
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||1999: Mathematician and academic Alexander Abian dies.  He gained a degree of international notoriety for his claim that blowing up the Moon would solve virtually every problem of human existence, stating that a Moonless Earth wouldn't wobble, eliminating both the seasons and its associated events like heat waves, snowstorms and hurricanes. Pic: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Abian_alex.jpg
||1999: Mathematician and academic Alexander Abian dies.  He gained a degree of international notoriety for his claim that blowing up the Moon would solve virtually every problem of human existence, stating that a Moonless Earth wouldn't wobble, eliminating both the seasons and its associated events like heat waves, snowstorms and hurricanes. Pic: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Abian_alex.jpg


||2011: David Servan-Schreiber dies ... physician, neuroscientist, and author.
||2011: David Servan-Schreiber dies ... physician, neuroscientist, and author. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=david+servan-schreiber
 
||2012: Robert Ledley dies ... academic and inventor ... professor of physiology and biophysics and professor of radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, pioneered the use of electronic digital computers in biology and medicine. Pic.


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  • 1786: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet born. He will map the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.

    1786: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet born. He will map the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.

  • 1897: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart born. She will set many records, write best-selling books about her flying experiences, and be instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.

    1897: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart born. She will set many records, write best-selling books about her flying experiences, and be instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.

  • 1901: O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.

    1901: O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.

  • 1909: Mathematician and cryptologist Jerzy Różycki born. Różycki will work at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II.

    1909: Mathematician and cryptologist Jerzy Różycki born. Różycki will work at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II.

  • 1934: Mathematician and philosopher Hans Hahn dies. He made contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.

    1934: Mathematician and philosopher Hans Hahn dies. He made contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.

  • 1974: Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.

    1974: Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.

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