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||1869: Outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
||1869: Outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
File:Pafnuty Chebyshev.jpg|link=Pafnuty Chebyshev (nonfiction)|1880: Mathematician, statistician, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Pafnuty Chebyshev (nonfiction)|Pafnuty Chebyshev]] uses Chebyshev's inequality to defeat [[Baron Zersetzung]] in single combat. 


||1903: Danilo Blanuša born ... mathematician, physicist, and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=danilo+blanuša&oq=Danilo+Blanuša
||1903: Danilo Blanuša born ... mathematician, physicist, and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=danilo+blanuša&oq=Danilo+Blanuša
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||1924: Mary Ellen Rudin born ... mathematician known for her work in set-theoretic topology. Pic.
||1924: Mary Ellen Rudin born ... mathematician known for her work in set-theoretic topology. Pic.


File:Hermann Weyl.jpg|link=Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|1929: Mathematician, physicist, and [[APTO]] philosopher [[Hermann Weyl (nonfiction)|Hermann Weyl]] uses fermions (now known as [[Weyl semimetal (nonfiction)|Weyl semimetals]]) to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].  
||1933: Mathematician and Jesuit priest James Cullen born. He contributed to what are now called Cullen numbers. No pics online.


||1941: World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
||1941: World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)


||1943: Henry Louis Rietz dies ... mathematician, actuarial scientist, and statistician, who was a leader in the development of statistical theory. Pic: https://www.maa.org/about-maa/governance/maa-presidents/henry-lewis-rietz-1924-maa-president
||1943: Henry Louis Rietz dies ... mathematician, actuarial scientist, and statistician, who was a leader in the development of statistical theory. Pic: https://www.maa.org/about-maa/governance/maa-presidents/henry-lewis-rietz-1924-maa-president
File:Betty Holberton.jpg|link=Betty Holberton (nonfiction)|1944: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer [[Betty Holberton (nonfiction)|Betty Holberton]] programs the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer to confirm the [[APTO]] Accords, a landmark accomplishment in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1952: Forest Ray Moulton dies ... astronomer and academic. In the first decades of the twentieth century, some additional small satellites were discovered to be in orbit around Jupiter. Dr. Moulton proposed that these were actually gravitationally-captured planetesimals. This theory has become well-accepted among astronomers. Pic.
||1952: Forest Ray Moulton dies ... astronomer and academic. In the first decades of the twentieth century, some additional small satellites were discovered to be in orbit around Jupiter. Dr. Moulton proposed that these were actually gravitationally-captured planetesimals. This theory has become well-accepted among astronomers. Pic.
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||1972: Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
||1972: Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
||1977: Peter Carl Goldmark dies ... engineer ... instrumental in developing the long-playing microgroove 33-1/3 rpm phonograph disc. Pic.


File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.jpg|link=Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]] dies. Her doctoral thesis established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.
File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.jpg|link=Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]] dies. Her doctoral thesis established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.
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||2009: Ray Solomonoff dies ... inventor of algorithmic probability, his General Theory of Inductive Inference (also known as Universal Inductive Inference), and was a founder of algorithmic information theory. He was an originator of the branch of artificial intelligence based on machine learning, prediction and probability. Pic: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267090779_Ray_Solomonoff_and_the_New_Probability
||2009: Ray Solomonoff dies ... inventor of algorithmic probability, his General Theory of Inductive Inference (also known as Universal Inductive Inference), and was a founder of algorithmic information theory. He was an originator of the branch of artificial intelligence based on machine learning, prediction and probability. Pic: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267090779_Ray_Solomonoff_and_the_New_Probability
||2010: John E. Baldwin dies ... contributed to the development of interferometry in Radio Astronomy, and later astronomical optical interferometry and lucky imaging; and made the first maps of the radio emission from the Andromeda Galaxy. Pic.


||2015: The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
||2015: The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
File:Blue Flower.jpg|link=Blue Flower (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Blue Flower (nonfiction)|Blue Flower]]'' stolen from the private home of "a celebrity mathematician in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]" by agents of the [[House of Malevecchio]].


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  • 903: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi born. He will publish his Book of Fixed Stars in 964.

    903: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi born. He will publish his Book of Fixed Stars in 964.

  • 1823: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic.

    1823: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic.

  • 1963: Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

    1963: Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

  • 1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin dies. Her doctoral thesis established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.

    1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin dies. Her doctoral thesis established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.

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