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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.

    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.

    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.

    1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2000: AESOP said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the Mir astronauts.

    2000: AESOP said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the Mir astronauts.

  • 2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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