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||1969: Philip S. Van Cise dies ... U.S. Army colonel, crimebusting district attorney, and private practice lawyer in Denver, Colorado. He is best known for arresting and prosecuting the notorious "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" headed by Lou Blonger, a story he recounted in his book ''Fighting the Underworld''. No pic online. | ||1969: Philip S. Van Cise dies ... U.S. Army colonel, crimebusting district attorney, and private practice lawyer in Denver, Colorado. He is best known for arresting and prosecuting the notorious "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" headed by Lou Blonger, a story he recounted in his book ''Fighting the Underworld''. No pic online. | ||
||1971: The Hoe Avenue Peace Meeting was an important gathering of New York City gangs on December 8, 1971, | ||1970: Christopher Kelk Ingold dies ... chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive and resonance effects, and such descriptors as SN1, SN2, E1, and E2. Pic. | ||
||1971: The Hoe Avenue Peace Meeting was an important gathering of New York City gangs on December 8, 1971, in the Bronx. It was called to propose a general truce and an unprecedented inter-gang alliance. The impetus for the meeting was the murder of "Black Benjie", a peace keeper of the Ghetto Brothers. While no lasting peace was ever established, a subsequent negotiation established a procedure for dealing with conflicts to avoid street warfare. The meeting is notable as one of the first attempts by street organizations to broker a truce between groups of different ethnic backgrounds. | |||
||1973: Griffith Conrad Evans dies ... mathematician working for much of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He is largely credited with elevating Berkeley's mathematics department to a top-tier research department, having recruited many notable mathematicians in the 1930s and 1940s. | ||1973: Griffith Conrad Evans dies ... mathematician working for much of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He is largely credited with elevating Berkeley's mathematics department to a top-tier research department, having recruited many notable mathematicians in the 1930s and 1940s. | ||
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1825: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1834: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page builds new type of scrying engine.
1835: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey secretly prints first edition of The Adulteration of Bergamot.
1864: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole dies. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1865: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
1932: US Navy raises flock of Carnivorous dirigibles.
1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.
2017: First use of Weyl semimetal crystals to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
