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||1921 – Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll was given as 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300. | ||1921 – Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll was given as 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300. | ||
||John George Kemeny (b. May 31, 1926) was a Jewish-American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator He will co-develop the BASIC programming language, and pioneer the use of computers in college education. Pic. | |||
||1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. | ||1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. | ||
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1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.
1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter Karl Georg Christian von Staudt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.