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||2000: Louis Néel dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2000: Louis Néel dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||2015: Irma M. Wyman dies ... early computer engineer and the first woman to become vice president of Honeywell, Inc. She was a systems thinking tutor and was the first female CIO of Honeywell. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Irma+Wyman | |||
File:Green Tangle 4.jpg|link=Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 4]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiments spontaneously generates [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]]. | File:Green Tangle 4.jpg|link=Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 4]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiments spontaneously generates [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]]. | ||
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1790: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1894: John Venn invents new Demon-hunting diagram, leading to arrest of serial killer H. H. Holmes.
1894: H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
1924: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz born.
1925: Mathematician and social activist Alice Beta interviews famed inventor and data processing pioneer Herman Hollerith.
1929: Inventor Herman Hollerith dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
1949: Mathematician and crime-fighter Aleksandr Khinchin publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on modern probability theory which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: Industrialist, military contractor, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung privately advises Richard Nixon to "tell the reporters that you are not a crook."
1973: Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
1973: In Washington, D.C., musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits tells 400 Associated Press managing editors that "Richard Nixon is not a crook."
1990: Physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter dies. He shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
2018: Signed first edition of Green Tangle 4 used in high-energy literature experiments spontaneously generates artificial intelligence.