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File:Tom Kilburn.jpg|link=Tom Kilburn (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Tom Kilburn (nonfiction)|Tom Kilburn]] dies. Over the course of a productive 30-year career, he was involved in the development of five computers of great historical significance. | File:Tom Kilburn.jpg|link=Tom Kilburn (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Tom Kilburn (nonfiction)|Tom Kilburn]] dies. Over the course of a productive 30-year career, he was involved in the development of five computers of great historical significance. | ||
||2002: Roman Personov dies ... physicist and academic. Pic | ||2002: Roman Personov dies ... physicist and academic ... one of the founders of selective laser spectroscopy of complex molecules in solids (frozen solutions). Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Roman+Personov | ||
||2005: Albert Schatz dies ... microbiologist and academic. Pic. | ||2005: Albert Schatz dies ... microbiologist and academic. Pic. | ||
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1492: Mathematician Adam Ries born (uncertain). He will write textbooks for practical mathematics, promoting the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals.
1551: Writer, humanist, and historian Pedro Mexía dies. He wrote Silva de varia lección ("A Miscellany of Several Lessons"), which became an early best seller across Europe.
1552: Mathematician and criminal Anarchimedes uses Gnomon algorithm functions to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
1574: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd born.
1835: Mathematician, engineer, cartographer, economist, and crime fighter Pierre Charles François Dupin uses choropleth map to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1903: The short film Electrocuting an Elephant is released. It documents the killing of an elephant named Topsy.
1904: Outbreak of Scrimshaw abuse linked to last year's release of Electrocuting an Elephant.
1911: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton dies.
1949: Computer scientist Anita Borg born. She will found the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
1958: Gnomon algorithm forecasting models indicate that an American hydrogen bomb will be lost within the next thirty days.
1961: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex."
1962: Industrialist, military contractor, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung tells reporters that the military-industrial complex is "the most profitable venture ever undertaken by humanity."
1965: Extract of Radium opens new retail outlet in Palomares, Spain, in preparation for the Palomares nuclear weapons event.
1966: Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
1969: Mutant culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae computing Gnomon algorithm functions unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.
1997: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh dies. He discovered Pluto, as well as many asteroids.
2001: Mathematician and computer scientist Tom Kilburn dies. Over the course of a productive 30-year career, he was involved in the development of five computers of great historical significance.
2018: Signed first edition of Angry Feller sells for fifty dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
