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||1985 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900) | ||1985 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900) | ||
||Leo Zippin (d. May 11, 1995) was an American mathematician. He is best known for solving Hilbert's Fifth Problem with Deane Montgomery and Andrew M. Gleason in 1952. Pic. | |||
||1995 – More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions. | ||1995 – More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions. | ||
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868: A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
1109: Omar Khayyam vows to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1845: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Jacques Philippe Marie Binet publishes new theory of crimes against mathematical constants using fundamental principles of matrix algebra.
1858: Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
1903: The short film Electrocuting an Elephant blamed for wave of Wumpus-compass syndrome.
1904: Mathematician Emmy Noether discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and reverse crimes against mathematical constants.
1918: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman born. He will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.