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||2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law. | ||2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law. | ||
||2002 – Moscow theater hostage crisis: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when | ||2002 – Moscow theater hostage crisis: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before. | ||
Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before. | |||
||2007 – Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize (b. 1918) | ||2007 – Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize (b. 1918) | ||
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1764: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
1849: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius born. He will make contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
1923: Mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz dies. He fostered the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which advanced the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States.
1945: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov dies. Fame came to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship became internationally known.
1972: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky dies. He pioneered both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.