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1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.
1814: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler born. He will invent the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.
2016: New autobiography by Didacus automaton accuses Baron Zersetzung of crimes against mathematical constants.
1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born.
1936: Enrico Fermi publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.

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 ||1981: Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
+||1997: Manfred von Ardenne dies ... research and applied physicist and inventor. He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, plasma physics, and radio and television technology. From 1928 to 1945, he directed his private research laboratory Forschungslaboratorium für Elektronenphysik. For ten years after World War II, he worked in the Soviet Union on their atomic bomb project  Pic.
 ||1998: Sergey Vsevolodovich Yablonsky dies ... mathematician, one of the founders of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics.  Pic.