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File:Joseph Nicollet.jpg|link=Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and explorer [[Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|Joseph Nicollet]] born. He will map the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
File:Joseph Nicollet.jpg|link=Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and explorer [[Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|Joseph Nicollet]] born. He will map the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
File:Dominique Jean Larrey.jpg|link=Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|1820: Physician and [[APTO]] field surgeon [[Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|Dominique Jean Larrey]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which improve outcomes in battlefield medicine and triage by up to five percent per kilobyte.


||1821: William Poole born ... boxer and gangster. Dead Rabbits. Pic.
||1821: William Poole born ... boxer and gangster. Dead Rabbits. Pic.
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||1856: Émile Picard born ... mathematician and academic.
||1856: Émile Picard born ... mathematician and academic.
||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
||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
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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.


||1914: Frances Oldham Kelsey born ... pharmacologist and physician ... thalidomide intervention.
||1913: Britton Chance born ... biologist and sailor. Pic.
 
||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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||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.

Latest revision as of 20:41, 24 March 2024

  • 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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