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||1935: Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey. Pic. | ||1935: Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey. Pic. | ||
||1937: R. J. Mitchell dies ... engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire. | ||1937: R. J. Mitchell dies ... engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire. Pic. | ||
||1943: Henry Hill born ... mobster. | ||1943: Henry Hill born ... mobster. Pic. | ||
File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]] antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to [[Thefixisin]]. | File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]] antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to [[Thefixisin]]. | ||
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||1957: Maurice Audin dies ... mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who was one of the "disappeared" during the Battle of Algiers. Pic. | ||1957: Maurice Audin dies ... mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who was one of the "disappeared" during the Battle of Algiers. Pic. | ||
||1965: Paul B. Coremans dies ... chemist and academic. | ||1965: Paul B. Coremans dies ... chemist and academic. WWII monuments. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Paul+B.+Coremans | ||
||1968: Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types. | ||1968: Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types. | ||
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1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.
2017: Signed first edition of Red Spiral sells for thirty thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.