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1914: Physicist and philosopher James Van Allen born. The Van Allen radiation belts will be named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.
1926: Steganographic analysis of The Safe-Cracker reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor Philo Farnsworth.
1928: Mathematician and crime-fighter Abraham Fraenkel publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on axiomatic set theory, which he uses to detect and counteract crimes against mathematical constants.
1930: Mathematician Kurt Godel announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem -- that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic -- in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle.
1939: Soviet Air Defense office Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov born. Petrov will became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.
1985: Mathematician George Pólya dies. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2017: Signed first edition of Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus sells for two million dollars.
2018: Green Tangle 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||1936: Marcel Grossmann dies ... mathematician and a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Pic.
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+File:Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov.jpg|link=Stanislav Petrov (nonfiction)|1939: Soviet Air Defense office [[Stanislav Petrov (nonfiction)|Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov]] born. Petrov will became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.
 ||1940: World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights