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File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1522: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and preventprevent [[Crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1522: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and preventprevent [[Crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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||1942: Alfred Jacobus (Alf) van der Poorten born ... number theorist. Pic. | ||1942: Alfred Jacobus (Alf) van der Poorten born ... number theorist. Pic. | ||
||1946: Bruno Tesch dies ... chemist and businessman. Pic. | ||1946: Bruno Tesch dies ... chemist and businessman. Zyklon B. Pic. | ||
||1947: Frederick Gowland Hopkins dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1947: Frederick Gowland Hopkins dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||1956: Operation Mosaic was a series of two British nuclear tests conducted in the Monte Bello Islands in Western Australia on 16 May and 19 June 1956. Pic. | ||1956: Operation Mosaic was a series of two British nuclear tests conducted in the Monte Bello Islands in Western Australia on 16 May and 19 June 1956. Pic. | ||
||1960: Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. | ||1960: Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. Pic. | ||
||1963: Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky dies ... codenamed HERO, was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Penkovsky was responsible for informing the United Kingdom about the Soviet emplacement of missiles in Cuba, thus providing both the UK and the United States with the precise knowledge necessary to address rapidly developing military tensions with Soviet Russia. Pic. | ||1963: Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky dies ... codenamed HERO, was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Penkovsky was responsible for informing the United Kingdom about the Soviet emplacement of missiles in Cuba, thus providing both the UK and the United States with the precise knowledge necessary to address rapidly developing military tensions with Soviet Russia. Pic. | ||
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||1969: Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus. | ||1969: Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus. | ||
||1975: Michael X dies ... born Michael de Freitas in Trinidad and Tobago, was a self-styled black revolutionary and civil rights activist in 1960s London. He was also known as Michael Abdul Malik and Abdul Malik. Convicted of murder in 1972, Michael X was executed by hanging in 1975 in Port of Spain's Royal Jail. | ||1975: Michael X dies ... born Michael de Freitas in Trinidad and Tobago, was a self-styled black revolutionary and civil rights activist in 1960s London. He was also known as Michael Abdul Malik and Abdul Malik. Convicted of murder in 1972, Michael X was executed by hanging in 1975 in Port of Spain's Royal Jail. Pic. | ||
||1988: A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. | ||1988: A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. | ||
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1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and preventprevent Crimes against mathematical constants.
1718: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian Maria Gaetana Agnesi born. She will write the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
1830: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
1888: The Orcagna scrying engine previews Nikola Tesla's speech on alternating current technology.
1888: Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
1968: Mathematician and crime-fighter Jacques-Louis Lions publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use partial differential equations and stochastic control to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography."
2019: Green Ring voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.