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||1867: Benjamin Peirce honored: Thomas Hill, president of Harvard College and sometime mathematician, wrote mathematics professor Benjamin Peirce, "I have the honor of informing you that the University, on Commencement Day, conferred on you the Degree of Doctor of Laws in recognition of the transcendent ability with which you have pursued mathematical physical investigations, and in particular for the luster which she had herself for so many years borrowed from your genius."
||1867: Benjamin Peirce honored: Thomas Hill, president of Harvard College and sometime mathematician, wrote mathematics professor Benjamin Peirce, "I have the honor of informing you that the University, on Commencement Day, conferred on you the Degree of Doctor of Laws in recognition of the transcendent ability with which you have pursued mathematical physical investigations, and in particular for the luster which she had herself for so many years borrowed from your genius."


||Ralph Austin Bard (b. July 29, 1884) was a Chicago financier who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1941–1944, and as Under Secretary, 1944–1945. He is noted for a memorandum he wrote to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in 1945 urging that Japan be given a warning before the use of the atomic bomb on a strategic city. He was "the only person known to have formally dissented from the use of the atomic bomb without advance warning." Pic.
||1884: Ralph Austin Bard born ... financier who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1941–1944, and as Under Secretary, 1944–1945. He is noted for a memorandum he wrote to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in 1945 urging that Japan be given a warning before the use of the atomic bomb on a strategic city. He was "the only person known to have formally dissented from the use of the atomic bomb without advance warning." Pic.


||1888 – Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (d. 1982)
||1888: Vladimir K. Zworykin born... engineer, invented the Iconoscope.


||1898 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988) Isidor Isaac Rabi (/ˈrɑːbi/; born Israel Isaac Rabi, 29 July 1898 – 11 January 1988) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. He was also one of the first scientists in the United States to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens.
||1898: Isidor Isaac Rabi born ... physicist and academic ... Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. He was also one of the first scientists in the United States to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens.


||Dmitri Dmitrievich Ivanenko (b. July 29, 1904) was a Soviet-Ukrainian theoretical physicist who made a great contributions to the physical science of the twentieth century, especially to nuclear physics, field theory, and gravitation theory.
||1904: Dmitri Dmitrievich Ivanenko born ... theoretical physicist who made a great contributions to the physical science of the twentieth century, especially to nuclear physics, field theory, and gravitation theory.


||1923 – Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (d. 2014)
||1923: Edgar Cortright born ... scientist and engineer.


||1925 – Harold W. Kuhn, American mathematician and academic (d. 2014)
||1925: Harold W. Kuhn born ... mathematician and academic.


File:Bonus marchers.gif|link=Bonus Army (nonfiction)|1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "[[Bonus Army (nonfiction)|Bonus Army]]" of World War I veterans.
File:Bonus marchers.gif|link=Bonus Army (nonfiction)|1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "[[Bonus Army (nonfiction)|Bonus Army]]" of World War I veterans.
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||1944: Mathematician, educator, and editor David Eugene Smith dies. Pic.
||1944: Mathematician, educator, and editor David Eugene Smith dies. Pic.


||1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
||1957: The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.


||1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
||1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).


||Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (d. 29 July 1962), who published as R. A. Fisher, was a British statistician and geneticist.
||1962: Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher dies ... statistician and geneticist.


File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|1976: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]].  
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|1976: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]].  

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  • 1654: Pascal wrote to Fermat, questioning his solution to the 'problem of the points,' a probability problem.

    1654: Pascal wrote to Fermat, questioning his solution to the 'problem of the points,' a probability problem.

  • 1781: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman.

    1781: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman.

  • 1840: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Boole develops new system of symbolic logic which assists mathematicians in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1840: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Boole develops new system of symbolic logic which assists mathematicians in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.

    1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.

  • 1976: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian.

    1976: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian.

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