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File:Neptune Slaughter Believe It Or Whaat.jpg|link=Neptune Slaughter|1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier ''Hiryu''.
File:Neptune Slaughter Believe It Or Whaat.jpg|link=Neptune Slaughter|1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier ''Hiryu''.


||1949 – Jerry Bittle, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
||1949: Jerry Bittle born ... cartoonist.


||1949 – Ashawna Hailey, American computer scientist and philanthropist (d. 2011)
||1949: Ashawna Hailey born ... computer scientist and philanthropist.


||Evan Tom Davies (d. 8 October 1973) was a Welsh mathematician and linguist. He studied applications of the Lie derivative as it relates to Riemannian geometry as well as absolute differential calculus
||1973: Evan Tom Davies dies ... mathematician and linguist. He studied applications of the Lie derivative as it relates to Riemannian geometry as well as absolute differential calculus


||1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
||1974: Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.


||1985 – Malcolm Ross, American captain, physicist, and balloonist (b. 1919)
||1985: Malcolm Ross dies ... American captain, physicist, and balloonist.


File:Gordon Welchman.jpg|link=Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author [[Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|Gordon Welchman]] dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.
File:Gordon Welchman.jpg|link=Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author [[Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|Gordon Welchman]] dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.


||2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
||2001: U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.


||2008 – George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
||2005: Mathematician Alfred William Goldie dies. He will work in ring theory where he introduced the notion of the uniform dimension of a module, and the reduced rank of a module. He is well known for Goldie's theorem, which characterizes right Goldie rings. Indeed, his Independent obituary described him as the "Lord of the Rings". Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Goldie_Alfred.html
 
||2008: George Emil Palade dies ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|2009: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] uses spin foam models to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]], warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."
File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|2009: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] uses spin foam models to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]], warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."


||2014 – Harden M. McConnell, American chemist and academic (b. 1927)
||2014: Harden M. McConnell dies ... chemist and academic.


||File:Achilles Ajax dice.jpg|link=Dice (nonfiction)|Achilles and Ajax play [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice]] to determine who will attend the [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]].
||File:Achilles Ajax dice.jpg|link=Dice (nonfiction)|Achilles and Ajax play [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice]] to determine who will attend the [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]].

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  • 1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.

    1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.

  • 1924: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.

    1924: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.

  • 1925: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess stolen by math criminals.

    1925: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess stolen by math criminals.

  • 1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter Joseph Wedderburn the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter Joseph Wedderburn the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

    1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

  • 1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu.

    1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu.

  • 1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

    1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

  • 2009: Physicist and crime-fighter Tullio Regge uses spin foam models to detect and prevent crimes against physics, warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."

    2009: Physicist and crime-fighter Tullio Regge uses spin foam models to detect and prevent crimes against physics, warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."

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