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||Thomas Jones (b. 23 June 1756) was Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. | ||Thomas Jones (b. 23 June 1756) was Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. | ||
||1832 – Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist and geophysicist (b. 1761) | |||
||1843 – Paul Heinrich von Groth, German scientist (d. 1927) | |||
||1868 – Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer." | ||1868 – Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer." | ||
||1891 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (b. 1804) | |||
File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]]. | File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]]. | ||
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1913: While [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|testing new data transmission protocols]], Havelock and Nikola Tesla receive what appears to be a message from [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] containing a description of what will later be known as a [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]]. | File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1913: While [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|testing new data transmission protocols]], Havelock and Nikola Tesla receive what appears to be a message from [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] containing a description of what will later be known as a [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]]. | ||
||1915 – Frances Gabe, American artist and inventor (d. 2016) | |||
||1926 – Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, English microbiologist and parasitologist (d. 2017) | |||
||1931 – Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (d. 1981) | |||
File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1959: Convicted Manhattan Project spy [Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career. | File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1959: Convicted Manhattan Project spy [Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career. | ||
||Boris Vian (b. 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release. | ||Boris Vian (b. 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release. | ||
||1969 – IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry. | |||
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1972: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins. | |||
||1995 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914) | |||
||2013 – Kurt Leichtweiss, German mathematician and academic (b. 1927) | |||
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1390: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian John Cantius born. He will help develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.
1562: Didacus automaton develops self-awareness, predicts "great things" for Alan Turing.
1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.
1913: While testing new data transmission protocols, Havelock and Nikola Tesla receive what appears to be a message from Alan Turing containing a description of what will later be known as a Turing machine.
![Klaus Fuchs]] is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.](/w/images/thumb/8/8e/Klaus_Fuchs.jpg/95px-Klaus_Fuchs.jpg)
Klaus Fuchs]] is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
1972: Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.