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||1909: Ludwig Roth born ... aerospace engineer who was the head of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office which designed the ''Wasserfall'' and created advanced rockets designs such as the A9/A10 ICBM. Roth arrived in New York under Operation Paperclip on November 16, 1945 via the SS Argentina and served at Fort Bliss and Huntsville, Alabama. Pic. | ||1909: Ludwig Roth born ... aerospace engineer who was the head of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office which designed the ''Wasserfall'' and created advanced rockets designs such as the A9/A10 ICBM. Roth arrived in New York under Operation Paperclip on November 16, 1945 via the SS Argentina and served at Fort Bliss and Huntsville, Alabama. Pic. | ||
||1924: Friedrich L. Bauer born ... mathematician, computer scientist, and academic. Pic. | ||1924: Friedrich L. Bauer born ... mathematician, computer scientist, and academic. Pic. | ||
||1938: Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1938: Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak born ... mathematician and academic known for her work in balanced incomplete block designs, bivariegated graphs, graceful graphs, graph equations and frequency partitions. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=vasanti+n.+bhat-nayak | ||
||1942: SYDNEY, NSW. 1942-06-10. THE SPENT 17.7 INCH TORPEDO, EITHER TYPE 96 OR 97, FIRED BY THE UNIDENTIFIED JAPANESE MIDGET SUBMARINE (KNOWN AS MIDGET A), WHICH RAN ASHORE AT GARDEN ISLAND DURING THE ATTACK ON SYDNEY HARBOUR ON 31 MAY 1942. NOTE THE BLAST WALL OF SANDBAGS IN THE BACKGROUND, CONSTRUCTED PRIOR TO THE TORPEDO BEING DRAGGED FURTHER IN. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION). Pic. | ||1942: SYDNEY, NSW. 1942-06-10. THE SPENT 17.7 INCH TORPEDO, EITHER TYPE 96 OR 97, FIRED BY THE UNIDENTIFIED JAPANESE MIDGET SUBMARINE (KNOWN AS MIDGET A), WHICH RAN ASHORE AT GARDEN ISLAND DURING THE ATTACK ON SYDNEY HARBOUR ON 31 MAY 1942. NOTE THE BLAST WALL OF SANDBAGS IN THE BACKGROUND, CONSTRUCTED PRIOR TO THE TORPEDO BEING DRAGGED FURTHER IN. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION). Pic. | ||
||1944: Willem Jacob van Stockum dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1944: Willem Jacob van Stockum dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1972: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the history of [[high-energy literature]]. | File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1972: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the history of [[high-energy literature]]. | ||
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940: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī born. His Almagest will be widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.
1278: Mathematician Yang Hui uses his famous Triangle to defeat the Forbidden ratio in single combat.
1793: French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1836: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère dies. He was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".
1972: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the history of high-energy literature.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Purple Racer reveals "at least five, perhaps as many as nine" previously unknown shades of violet.