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||1633: French general and military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban born. He participated in each of the wars fought by France during the reign of Louis XIV. His design principles served as the dominant model of fortification for nearly 100 years, while his offensive tactics remained in use until the early twentieth century. Pic. | ||1633: French general and military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban born. He participated in each of the wars fought by France during the reign of Louis XIV. His design principles served as the dominant model of fortification for nearly 100 years, while his offensive tactics remained in use until the early twentieth century. Pic. | ||
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||1911: Louis W. Tordella born ... the longest serving deputy director of the National Security Agency. Pic. | ||1911: Louis W. Tordella born ... the longest serving deputy director of the National Security Agency. Pic. | ||
||1918: Julius Rosenberg born ... spy. | ||1918: Julius Rosenberg born ... spy. Pic. | ||
||1924: Alexander Esenin-Volpin born ... mathematician and poet. | ||1924: Alexander Esenin-Volpin born ... mathematician and poet. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+esenin-volpin | ||
||1926: Gabriele Amorth born ... priest and exorcist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=gabriele+amorth | ||1926: Gabriele Amorth born ... priest and exorcist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=gabriele+amorth | ||
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||1926: The Italian-built airship ''Norge'' becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. | ||1926: The Italian-built airship ''Norge'' becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. | ||
||1942: World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507 | ||1942: World War II: The U.S. tanker SS ''Virginia'' is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine ''U-507''. | ||
||1947: Jacob | ||1947: Jacob Bekenstein born ... theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. Pic. | ||
File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|1958: Mathematician, codebreaker, and crime analyst [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] makes a fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the [[Forbidden Ratio]], a criminal mathematical function. | File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|1958: Mathematician, codebreaker, and crime analyst [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] makes a fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the [[Forbidden Ratio]], a criminal mathematical function. | ||
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File:Ralph Hartley.jpg|link=Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|1970: Electronics researcher [[Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|Ralph Hartley]] dies. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory. | File:Ralph Hartley.jpg|link=Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|1970: Electronics researcher [[Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|Ralph Hartley]] dies. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory. | ||
||2001: Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 | ||2001: Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Alexei+Tupolev | ||
||2016: Solomon W. Golomb dies ... mathematician, engineer, and adacemic. He specialized in problems of combinatorial analysis, number theory, coding theory, and communications. His game of pentomino inspired Tetris. Pic. | ||2016: Solomon W. Golomb dies ... mathematician, engineer, and adacemic. He specialized in problems of combinatorial analysis, number theory, coding theory, and communications. His game of pentomino inspired Tetris. Pic. | ||
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1825: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer born. He will develop an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
1958: Mathematician, codebreaker, and crime analyst W. T. Tutte makes a fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Forbidden Ratio, a criminal mathematical function.
1959: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "is confident that the upcoming U-2 spyplane incident is an outstanding investment opportunity."
1960: Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1961: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon warns that U-2 spyplane incident may have released a new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1970: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley dies. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Creature unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty terabytes" of encrypted data relating, "apparently a record of top-secret Clandestiphrine experiments directed against the U-2 spyplane incident."