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||1944: Anatole Katok born ... mathematician with Russian origins. Katok was the Director of the Center for Dynamics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University. His field of research was the theory of dynamical systems. Pic. | ||1944: Anatole Katok born ... mathematician with Russian origins. Katok was the Director of the Center for Dynamics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University. His field of research was the theory of dynamical systems. Pic. | ||
||1945: Albert Jay Nock dies ... theorist, author, and critic born ... conservative, first self-identified libertarian. Pic. | |||
||1945: World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 35,000 people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers. | ||1945: World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 35,000 people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers. | ||
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1899: Chemist Edward Frankland dies. He was one of the originators of organometallic chemistry, introducing the concept of combining power or valence.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1927: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky born.
1928: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Vito Volterra uses principles of functional analysis to locate and apprehend math criminals.
1932: Mathematician John Charles Fields dies. He founded the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1973: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for his next film by selling shares in the President Nixon's resignation.
1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "advised President Nixon to resign with dignity, and take revenge later."
2006: Physicist and philosopher James Van Allen dies. The Van Allen radiation belts are named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.
2016: Signed first edition of Green City Skyline purchased by "an eminent Gnomon algorithm theorist residing in New Minneapolis, Canada.