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||1789: French Revolution: Assignats were paper money issued by the Constituent Assembly in France from 1789 to 1796, during the French Revolution, to address imminent bankruptcy. They were backed by the value of properties formerly held by the Catholic Church, which were confiscated, on the motion of Mirabeau, by the Assembly on 2 November 1789, and the crown lands, which had been taken over by the nation on 7 October. Pic. | |||
File:George Boole.jpg|link=George Boole (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and philosopher [[George Boole (nonfiction)|George Boole]] born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic. | File:George Boole.jpg|link=George Boole (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and philosopher [[George Boole (nonfiction)|George Boole]] born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic. | ||
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||1885: Harlow Shapley born ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||1885: Harlow Shapley born ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||
||1894: Alexander Lippisch born ... aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of aerodynamics who made important contributions to the understanding of tailless aircraft, delta wings and the ground effect, and also worked in the U.S. His most famous designs are the Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket-powered interceptor and the Dornier Aerodyne. Pic. | ||1894: Alexander Lippisch born ... aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of aerodynamics who made important contributions to the understanding of tailless aircraft, delta wings and the ground effect, and also worked in the U.S. His most famous designs are the Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket-powered interceptor and the Dornier Aerodyne. Pic. | ||
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||1920: In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920. | ||1920: In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920. | ||
||1924: David E. Muller born ... mathematician, computer scientist, and academic. He will invent the Muller C-element, a device used to implement asynchronous circuitry in electronic computers, and the Muller automata, an automaton model for infinite words. In geometric group theory Muller is known for the Muller–Schupp theorem, joint with Paul Schupp, characterizing finitely generated virtually free groups as finitely generated groups with context-free word problem. Pic search | ||1924: David E. Muller born ... mathematician, computer scientist, and academic. He will invent the Muller C-element, a device used to implement asynchronous circuitry in electronic computers, and the Muller automata, an automaton model for infinite words. In geometric group theory Muller is known for the Muller–Schupp theorem, joint with Paul Schupp, characterizing finitely generated virtually free groups as finitely generated groups with context-free word problem. Pic search. | ||
||1929: Richard Edward Taylor born ... physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics." Pic. | ||1929: Richard Edward Taylor born ... physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics." Pic. | ||
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||1959: Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance. | ||1959: Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance. | ||
||1966: Peter Debye dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1961: James Thurber born ... humorist and cartoonist. Pic. | ||
||1966: Peter Debye dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1970: Abram Samoilovitch Besikovitch dies ... mathematician. He will work on combinatorial methods and questions in real analysis, such as the Kakeya needle problem and the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension. Pic. | ||1970: Abram Samoilovitch Besikovitch dies ... mathematician. He will work on combinatorial methods and questions in real analysis, such as the Kakeya needle problem and the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension. Pic. | ||
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||1988: The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT. | ||1988: The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT. | ||
||1990: Eliot Porter dies ... photographer, chemist, and academic. | ||1990: Eliot Porter dies ... photographer, chemist, and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1993: Đuro Kurepa dies ... mathematician. Pic | ||1993: Đuro Kurepa dies ... mathematician. Pic | ||
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||2005: Rutherford "Gus" Aris dies ... chemical engineer, control theorist, mathematician, and academic. Pic. | ||2005: Rutherford "Gus" Aris dies ... chemical engineer, control theorist, mathematician, and academic. Pic. | ||
||2006: Adrien Douady dies ... mathematician. | ||2006: Adrien Douady dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||2009: Amir Pnueli dies ... computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient. He worked on temporal logic and model checking, particularly regarding fairness properties of concurrent systems. Pic. | ||2009: Amir Pnueli dies ... computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient. He worked on temporal logic and model checking, particularly regarding fairness properties of concurrent systems. Pic. | ||
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||2012: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar dies ... mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry. He, at the time of his death, held the Marshall distinguished professor of mathematics chair at Purdue University, and was also a professor of computer science and industrial engineering. He is known for Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory. His latest research was in the area of computational and algorithmic algebraic geometry. Pic. | ||2012: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar dies ... mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry. He, at the time of his death, held the Marshall distinguished professor of mathematics chair at Purdue University, and was also a professor of computer science and industrial engineering. He is known for Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory. His latest research was in the area of computational and algorithmic algebraic geometry. Pic. | ||
||2015: Roy Dommett dies ... scientist and engineer ... rockets. Pic search | ||2015: Roy Dommett dies ... scientist and engineer ... rockets. Pic search. | ||
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1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.