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||1940: Wolfgang Doeblin dies ... mathematician. Pic. Bio film: https://www.amazon.com/Wolfgang-Doeblin-mathematician-rediscovered-VideoMATH/dp/3540719601
||1940: Wolfgang Doeblin dies ... mathematician. Pic. Bio film: https://www.amazon.com/Wolfgang-Doeblin-mathematician-rediscovered-VideoMATH/dp/3540719601
||1940: Sam Eyde dies ... engineer and industrialist, founder of both Norsk Hydro and Elkem. Pic.


||1942: World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
||1942: World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.


||1945: Robert Dewar born ... computer scientist and academic.
||1945: Robert Dewar born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic.
 
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1947: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1948: The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), nicknamed Baby, was the world's first stored-program computer. It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester, England, by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine
||1948: The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), nicknamed Baby, was the world's first stored-program computer. It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester, England, by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine
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||1951: Charles Dillon Perrine dies ... astronomer. Pic.
||1951: Charles Dillon Perrine dies ... astronomer. Pic.
File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1952: Crime-fighter [[The Governess]] chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.


||1954: Gideon Sundback dies ... engineer and businessman, developed the zipper. Pic.
||1954: Gideon Sundback dies ... engineer and businessman, developed the zipper. Pic.
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||1970: Sukarno dies ... engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia.
||1970: Sukarno dies ... engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia.
||1973: Botanist and evolutionary biologist Thorvald (Thorwald) Julius Sørensen  born. He published the botanical research of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Pic.


||1973: In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law.
||1973: In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law.
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||1982: Hendrik Wade Bode dies ... engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist, of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research. Pic.
||1982: Hendrik Wade Bode dies ... engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist, of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research. Pic.


||1982: Joseph Friedman dies ... inventor, invented the bendy straw. pic.
||1982: Joseph Friedman dies ... inventor, invented the bendy straw. Pic.


||1987: Madman Muntz dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company.
||1987: Madman Muntz dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company.

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  • 1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

    1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

  • 1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.

    1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.

  • 1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.

    1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.

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