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||1919 – David Blackwell, African-American mathematician and academic (d. 2010) | ||1919 – David Blackwell, African-American mathematician and academic (d. 2010) | ||
||Wolfgang Kurt Hermann "Pief" Panofsky (b. April 24, 1919), was a German-American physicist | |||
||1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation. | ||1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation. | ||
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1656: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1863: Printer, inventor, and crime-fighter Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville patents new type of phonoautograph, which records crimes against mathematical constants as photographic images.
1914: The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1915: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.