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||1995: Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
||1995: Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
||2006: Charles Frederick Mosteller dies ... one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century.  Pic: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=x-raw-image%3A%2F%2F%2F9fff90814bdb2b37665bf85fb0409670db7ed01cb0366833d3d6e03f59f90c07&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasonline.org%2Fpublications%2Fbiographical-memoirs%2Fmemoir-pdfs%2Fmosteller-frederick.pdf&docid=zX_zisTRZzGcFM&tbnid=NyvbS4GQ_5-TbM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwiQlY6whobdAhUM2IMKHQAgBWwQMwg7KAEwAQ..i&w=557&h=646&bih=588&biw=1175&q=Frederick%20Mosteller&ved=0ahUKEwiQlY6whobdAhUM2IMKHQAgBWwQMwg7KAEwAQ&iact=mrc&uact=8


||2012: Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut.
||2012: Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut.

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  • 1754: Joseph-Louis Lagrange publishes his first work, in the form of a letter in Italian. A month later he realized that he had rediscovered Leibniz's formula for the nth derivative of a product.

    1754: Joseph-Louis Lagrange publishes his first work, in the form of a letter in Italian. A month later he realized that he had rediscovered Leibniz's formula for the nth derivative of a product.

  • 1829: William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.

    1829: William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.

  • 1885: The well-known illustration Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by math criminals, who demand computational ransom.

    1885: The well-known illustration Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by math criminals, who demand computational ransom.

  • 1934: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hans Hahn publishes new analysis of set theory which soons finds application in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1934: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hans Hahn publishes new analysis of set theory which soons finds application in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1928: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin born. She will discover the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

    1928: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin born. She will discover the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

  • 1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta uses Telstar to communicate with AESOP.

    1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta uses Telstar to communicate with AESOP.

  • 1962: Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.

    1962: Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.

  • 2017: AESOP re-broadcasts Walter Cronkite's 1962 trans-Atlantic television program.

    2017: AESOP re-broadcasts Walter Cronkite's 1962 trans-Atlantic television program.

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