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||1934: Carlos Chagas dies ... physician and bacteriologist. | ||1934: Carlos Chagas dies ... physician and bacteriologist. | ||
||1939: Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans. | ||1939: Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans. | ||
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||1950: Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history. | ||1950: Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history. | ||
|| | ||1952: Gino Fano dies ... mathematician, best known as the founder of the finite geometry. He was born in Mantua, in Italy and died in Verona, also in Italy. | ||
||1960 | ||1957: Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. | ||
||1960: John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century to become the 35th president of the United States. | |||
File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1969: Astronomer [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe. | File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1969: Astronomer [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe. | ||
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File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|1974: [[Green Ring]] tells [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] a funny story about ''[[Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography (nonfiction)|Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography]]''. | File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|1974: [[Green Ring]] tells [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] a funny story about ''[[Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography (nonfiction)|Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography]]''. | ||
||1986 | ||1986: Aaron Swartz born ... computer programmer and activist. | ||
|| | ||1997: Menahem Max Schiffer dies ... mathematician who worked in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schiffer.html | ||
|| | ||2006: Hannspeter Winter dies ... physicist and academic (b. 1941) | ||
|| | ||2004: Melba Newell Phillips dies ... physicist and pioneer science educator. | ||
|| | ||2009: Vitaly Ginzburg dies ... physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
|| | ||2011: Bil Keane dies ... cartoonist. | ||
|| | ||2011: The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976. | ||
|| | ||2013: William C. Davidon dies ... physicist, mathematician, and academic. | ||
| | ||2015: Rod Davies dies ... astronomer and academic (b. 1930) | ||
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1703: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1807: Engineer, hydrographer, and politician Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait dies. He designed and oversaw the building of ships, making structural improvements and developing techniques to improve the disposition of cargo in ships' holds.
1839: Birth of Ivan Goremykin heralds new age of Extreme Moustaches.
1848: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher Gottlob Frege born. Though will be largely ignored during his lifetime, his work will influence later generations of logicians and philosophers.
1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1969: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
1974: Green Ring tells Dick Cavett a funny story about Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography.