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||1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. | ||1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. | ||
||Reinhard Gehlen (b. 3 April 1902) was a German general who was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East (FHO) military-intelligence unit, during World War II (1942–45); spymaster of the anti–Communist Gehlen Organization for the United States (1946–56); and the first president (1956–68) of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany, during the Cold War. | |||
||Solomon Kullback (b. April 3, 1907) was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov. | ||Solomon Kullback (b. April 3, 1907) was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov. | ||
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||1988 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907) | ||1988 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907) | ||
|| | ||Marion Franklin Tinsley (d. April 3, 1995) was an American mathematician and checkers player. He is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived. Pic (nice). | ||
||1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States. | ||1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States. | ||
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1693: Carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1841: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1998: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright dies. She did pioneering work in chaos theory.
1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast artificial intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere.
