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||1931: The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'état attempt. | ||1931: The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'état attempt. | ||
||1935: Evgeny Golod born ... mathematician who proved the Golod–Shafarevich theorem on class field towers. As an application, he gave a negative solution to the Kurosh–Levitzky problem on the nilpotency of finitely generated nil algebras, and so to a weak form of Burnside's problem. Pic: http://www.advgrouptheory.com/GTArchivum/Pictures/gtphotos.html | |||
File:Martian face.jpg|link=Pareidolia (nonfiction)|1958: National [[Pareidolia (nonfiction)|Pareidolia]] Day declared in the United States. | File:Martian face.jpg|link=Pareidolia (nonfiction)|1958: National [[Pareidolia (nonfiction)|Pareidolia]] Day declared in the United States. | ||
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File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' feels more green than ever, according to new [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|chromatographic survey]]. | File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' feels more green than ever, according to new [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|chromatographic survey]]. | ||
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1687: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaus I Bernoulli born. He will introduce a successful resolution to the St. Petersburg paradox.
1768: Astronomer and adventurer Guillaume Le Gentil publicly accuses the House of Malevecchio of crimes against astronomical constants. The Malvecchians will back down from the encounter, but later secretly punish Le Gentil by creating overcast conditions on June 4, 1769.
1914: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner born. His interests will include stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.
1958: National Pareidolia Day declared in the United States.
1969: Mathematician and academic Wacław Sierpiński dies. He made important contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and topology.
2017: Green Spiral 9 feels more green than ever, according to new chromatographic survey.