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File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1967: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1967: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1969: Jon Hal Folkman dies ... mathematician, a student of John Milnor, and a researcher at the RAND Corporation. Pic: diagram. | |||
||1971: Fritz Feigl dies ... chemist and academic. No pic? | ||1971: Fritz Feigl dies ... chemist and academic. No pic? | ||
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1656: Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1805: Inventor Claude Chappe dies. He invented and developed a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
1854: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker discovers new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1862: Mathematician David Hilbert born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
1898: Electrical engineer and inventor Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger dies. He invented the first successful alternating current electrical meter, which was critical to the general acceptance of AC power.
1941: Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1967: John Brunner uses scrying engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1973: United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
1974: Mathematician, academic, and crime-fighter Werner Fenchel publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use nonlinear programming techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2003: A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted.
2007: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt dies. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.
