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||1978: In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier. | ||1978: In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier. | ||
||1993: Joseph E. Gillis dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to fractal sets, fluid dynamics, random walks, and pioneered the combinatorial theory of special functions of mathematical physics. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?q=joseph+gillis+mathematician | |||
||1994: Nathan Jacob Fine ies ... mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He solved the Jeep problem in 1946. Pic: http://www.ams.org/notices/199506/fine.pdf | ||1994: Nathan Jacob Fine ies ... mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He solved the Jeep problem in 1946. Pic: http://www.ams.org/notices/199506/fine.pdf | ||
||2004: Robert Bacher dies ... physicist and academic. | ||2004: Robert Bacher dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||2007: Sidney Richard Coleman dies ... theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann. He is noted for his research in high-energy theoretical physics. Pic. | ||2007: Sidney Richard Coleman dies ... theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann. He is noted for his research in high-energy theoretical physics. Pic. | ||
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1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.
1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.
1865: Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in The Saturday Press.
1866: Physicist and crime-fighter Georg Hermann Quincke uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Cowries reveals "at least three hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.