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||1960 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space. | ||1960 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space. | ||
||Lev Davidovich Landau ( | ||Lev Davidovich Landau (d. 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. | ||
||Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE, FRS (d. 1 April 1971) was a British crystallographer who proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene. She was the first to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene in 1931. | |||
File:Robin Farquharson.jpg|link=Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|1973: Mathematician [[Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|Robin Farquharson]] dies. He wrote an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as ''Theory of Voting''. | File:Robin Farquharson.jpg|link=Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|1973: Mathematician [[Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|Robin Farquharson]] dies. He wrote an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as ''Theory of Voting''. | ||
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1776: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain born. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem will a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1890: Havelock survives shootout by shooting first.
1891: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses census data to locate Havelock.
1898: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis born. He will become famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
1973: Mathematician Robin Farquharson dies. He wrote an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.