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File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1929: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing. | File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1929: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing. | ||
File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1931: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] lectures on applications of [[Set theory (nonfiction)|Set theory]] to [[Venn diagram|anti-demon algorithms]]. | |File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1931: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] lectures on applications of [[Set theory (nonfiction)|Set theory]] to [[Venn diagram|anti-demon algorithms]]. | ||
||1940 – Eric Gill, English sculptor and typeface designer (b. 1882) - erotica, incest | ||1940 – Eric Gill, English sculptor and typeface designer (b. 1882) - erotica, incest | ||
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||1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century. | ||1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century. | ||
File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1949: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on modern probability theory which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematics]]. | |||
||1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. | ||1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. | ||
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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.
1949: Mathematician and crime-fighter Aleksandr Khinchin publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on modern probability theory which detect and prevent crimes against mathematics.
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."