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||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. | ||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. | ||
||1931: Alexander Gorlov born ... mechanical engineer. Hydro turbine. 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.
1977: The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
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.