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1781: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman.
1840: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Boole develops new system of symbolic logic which assists mathematicians in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1976: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian.

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 File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|1976: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]].
+||Isidor Isaac Rabi (d. 11 January 1988) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. He was also one of the first scientists in the United States to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens.
 ||1994 – Dorothy Hodgkin, Egyptian-English biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
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 ||2008 – Bruce Edward Ivins, American scientist and bio-defense researcher (b. 1946)
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