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||1924: Thomas Corwin Mendenhall dies ... autodidact physicist and meteorologist. | ||1924: Thomas Corwin Mendenhall dies ... autodidact physicist and meteorologist. | ||
||1928: Jean E. Sammet born ... computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962. She was also one of the developers of the influential COBOL programming language. Pic. | |||
||1933: The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. | ||1933: The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. |
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1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from Table Manners sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of crimes against mathematical constants.