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||1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h). | ||1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h). | ||
||Hilde Levi (b. 9 May 1909) was a German-Danish physicist. She was a pioneer of the use of radioactive isotopes in biology and medicine, notably the techniques of radiocarbon dating and autoradiography. In later life she became a scientific historian. Pic. | |||
||1912 – Géza Ottlik, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1990) | ||1912 – Géza Ottlik, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1990) | ||
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1469: Mathematician, astronomer, and gnomon-builder Paolo Toscanelli accuses the House of Malevecchio of secretly using the gnomon in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence to commit crimes against astronomical constants.
1746: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1963: Project West Ford launches, successfully deploying a ring of 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit, forming an artificial ionospheric radio communication system.
1972: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about how the Watergate scandal will play out.
1972: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1974: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged math criminal Skip Digits conducts debut performance of his new opera about impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Two Bugs Fighting unexpectedly releases self-replicating computer virus which spontaneously generates Extract of Radium.