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||1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. | ||1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. | ||
||1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) | ||1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) Robert Hofstadter (February 5, 1915 – November 17, 1990) was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons". | ||
||2000 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) | ||2000 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) | ||
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1790: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1894: John Venn invents new Demon-hunting diagram, leading to arrest of serial killer H. H. Holmes.
1894: H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
1924: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz born.
1925: Mathematician and social activist Alice Beta interviews famed inventor and data processing pioneer Herman Hollerith.
1929: Inventor Herman Hollerith dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
1931: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor lectures on applications of Set theory to anti-demon algorithms.
1972: Industrialist, military contractor, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung privately advises Richard Nixon to "tell the reporters that you are not a crook."
1973: Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
1973: In Washington, D.C., musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits tells 400 Associated Press managing editors that "[[Richard Nixon is not a crook."