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||1912: Werner Hartmann born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||1912: Werner Hartmann born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1917: James H. Critchfield born ... American CIA officer. Pic search | ||1917: James H. Critchfield born ... American CIA officer. Pic search. | ||
||1918: Heinz Rutishauser born ... mathematician and a pioneer of modern numerical mathematics and computer science. Pic search | ||1918: Heinz Rutishauser born ... mathematician and a pioneer of modern numerical mathematics and computer science. Pic search. | ||
||1925: Douglas Engelbart born ... computer scientist, invented the computer mouse. Pic. | ||1925: Douglas Engelbart born ... computer scientist, invented the computer mouse. Pic. | ||
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File:USS Monitor sinking.jpg|link=Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (nonfiction)|1975: The [[Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (nonfiction)|Monitor National Marine Sanctuary]] is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary. | File:USS Monitor sinking.jpg|link=Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (nonfiction)|1975: The [[Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (nonfiction)|Monitor National Marine Sanctuary]] is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary. | ||
||1982: Victor Mikhailovich Glushkov dies ... mathematician, the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union, and one of the founders of Cybernetics. Pic. | ||1982: Victor Mikhailovich Glushkov dies ... mathematician, the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union, and one of the founders of Cybernetics. Pic. | ||
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File:Samuel Eilenberg 1970.jpg|link=Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician [[Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|Samuel Eilenberg]] dies. He co-founded category theory with Saunders Mac Lane, and proposed the Eilenberg swindle (a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules). | File:Samuel Eilenberg 1970.jpg|link=Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician [[Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|Samuel Eilenberg]] dies. He co-founded category theory with Saunders Mac Lane, and proposed the Eilenberg swindle (a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules). | ||
||2011: Ian Robertson Porteous dies ... mathematician at the University of Liverpool and an educator on Merseyside. He is best known for three books on geometry and modern algebra. Pic: http://hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk/tiki/Ian+Porteous | ||2011: Ian Robertson Porteous dies ... mathematician at the University of Liverpool and an educator on Merseyside. He is best known for three books on geometry and modern algebra. Pic: http://hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk/tiki/Ian+Porteous | ||
||2013: Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea. | ||2013: Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea. | ||
||2015: Mathematician and cryptanalyst Gene Grabeel dies ... founded the Venona project. Pic. | |||
||2015: Carl Djerassi dies ... chemist, author, and playwright. Pic. | ||2015: Carl Djerassi dies ... chemist, author, and playwright. Pic. | ||
File:Planet_of_the_COVID.jpg|link=Planet of the COVID|2022: Premiere of '''''[[Planet of the COVID|Rise of the Variants]]''''', the third film in ''Planet of the COVID'' global health catastrophe media franchise about a world in which humans and COVID clash for control. | |||
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1619: Mathematician and cardinal Michelangelo Ricci born. Ricci will play a significant part in the theoretical debates and experiments that lead up to Torricelli's discovery of atmospheric pressure and invention of the mercury barometer.
1661: Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
1736: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt born. He will make major improvements to the steam engine.
1830: In a letter to Laplace, Carl Friedrich Gauss writes about a "curious problem" that he had been working on for twelve years. He gives the limiting value of the frequency of distribution of positive integers in the continued fraction of a random number (now called the Gauss-Kuzmin Distribution) as log2(1+x) . Gauss then asks if Laplace can offer help in finding the error term.
1975: The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
1998: Mathematician Samuel Eilenberg dies. He co-founded category theory with Saunders Mac Lane, and proposed the Eilenberg swindle (a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules).
2022: Premiere of Rise of the Variants, the third film in Planet of the COVID global health catastrophe media franchise about a world in which humans and COVID clash for control.