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||1914 – Milbourne Christopher, American magician and author (d. 1984) | ||1914 – Milbourne Christopher, American magician and author (d. 1984) | ||
||Kenneth N. Stevens (b. March 23, 1924) was the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. Stevens was head of the Speech Communication Group[2] in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and was one of the world's leading scientists in acoustic phonetics. Pic. | |||
||1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (d. 1980) | ||1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (d. 1980) | ||
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1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from Game of Chance sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
