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||1776: James Ferguson dies ... astronomer and instrument maker. Pic. | ||1776: James Ferguson dies ... astronomer and instrument maker. Pic. | ||
||1884: Pál Selényi born. | ||1865: James McCune Smith dies ... physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author ... He used his training in medicine and statistics to refute common misconceptions about race, intelligence, medicine, and society in general. Invited as a founding member of the New York Statistics Society in 1852, which promoted a new science, he was elected as a member in 1854 of the recently founded American Geographic Society. But he was never admitted to the American Medical Association or local medical associations ... also an abolitionist. Pic. | ||
||1884: Physicist and engineer Pál Selényi born. He was a pioneer of xerography. Pic. | |||
File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn|1894: [[John Venn]] invents new [[Venn diagram|Demon-hunting diagram]], leading to arrest of serial killer [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]]. | File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn|1894: [[John Venn]] invents new [[Venn diagram|Demon-hunting diagram]], leading to arrest of serial killer [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]]. | ||
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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.