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||Orso Mario Corbino (d. 23 January 1937, Rome) was an Italian physicist and politician. Pic. | ||Orso Mario Corbino (d. 23 January 1937, Rome) was an Italian physicist and politician. Pic. | ||
File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] born. | File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] born. He will be known as "the father of information theory". | ||
||Gerda Hedwig Lerner (b. April 30, 1920) was an Austrian-born American historian and author. | ||Gerda Hedwig Lerner (b. April 30, 1920) was an Austrian-born American historian and author. |
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1523: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé uses Judicial astrology (nonfiction) to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.
1777: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss born. He will have an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and be ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1874: Scene from Gambling Den Fight adapted for opera by John Havelock, performed at theaters across Europe to rave reviews.
1905: Albert Einstein writes his thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen ("A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions").
1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon born. He will be known as "the father of information theory".
1961: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg discovers new hydrogen isotope with important applications in the diagnosis and treatment of crimes against chemical constants.
1973: Watergate: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Sprouts unexpectedly reveals "at least thirty-five kilobytes" of encrypted data, apparently a previously unknown Gnomon algorithm function related to the color green.