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||2012 – Franco Pacini, Italian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1939) | ||2012 – Franco Pacini, Italian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1939) | ||
||2014 – Heini Halberstam, Czech-English mathematician and academic (b. 1926) | ||2014 – Heini Halberstam, Czech-English mathematician and academic (b. 1926) Heini Halberstam (d. 25 January 2014) was a British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is one of the two mathematicians after whom the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture is named. | ||
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1793: Engineer George Cayley publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which simulate the flight of petrels. He will later forecast the emergence of the SOEP cartel.
1812: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page born. His work will have a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that will maintain 'the scientific do not patent'.
1842: Wallace War-Heels rescues runaway stagecoach, then robs the occupants of one-third of their money and possessions.
1915: Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1940: ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") uses scrying engine techniques to pre-visualize the Wow! signal.
1941: Der Reichsspritzenmeister develops new drug to stimulate Kingpin inclination.
- 1947 – Al Capone, American gangster and mob boss (b. 1899)
1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
1963: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.
1995: The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.