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||1943: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities. | ||1943: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities. | ||
||1943: Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities. | ||1943: Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities. Pics. | ||
||1946: Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors. | ||1946: Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors. | ||
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||1984: Pyotr Kapitsa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1984: Pyotr Kapitsa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1992: Daniel Bovet dies ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1992: Daniel Bovet dies ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company [[Rhizolith Group]] announces world tour. | File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company [[Rhizolith Group]] announces world tour. | ||
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1461: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction) dies. He is remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.
1484: Polymath Johannes Trithemius publishes Chronicles of an Gnomon Algorithm Cryptographer, for which he will be posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. He will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1542: Johannes Schöner publishes Confessions of an Occult Cosmographer, for which he will posthumously win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. He will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1858: Mathematician and philosopher Havelock publishes computational biography of David Rittenhouse.
1859: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl born. He will argue that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
1903: Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone born. He will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.
1904: British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
1910: Kinetoscope used in series of math crimes, authorities name Skip Digits as person of interest.
1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
1878: Physicist Ernst Ruhmer dies. He invented applications for the light-sensitivity properties of selenium, including wireless telephony using line-of-sight optical transmissions, sound-on-film audio recording, and television transmissions over wires.
2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company Rhizolith Group announces world tour.
2016: Signed first edition of Boxes purchased for an undisclosed amount by "an eminent mathematician residing in New Minneapolis, Canada."
2017: Mathematician Donald Erik Sarason dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of Hardy space theory and Vanishing mean oscillation (VMO).