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||1994: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured. | ||1994: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured. | ||
||2003: Anthony Poshepny dies ... CIA paramilitary officer in what is now called Special Activities Division (renamed Special Activities Center in 2016 | ||2003: Anthony Poshepny dies ... CIA paramilitary officer in what is now called Special Activities Division (renamed Special Activities Center in 2016) ... best remembered for training the US-funded secret army in Laos during the Vietnam War. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=anthony+poshepny | ||
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2010: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]]. | File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2010: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]]. |
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1580: Cartographer, geographer, and APTO signatory Abraham Ortelius publishes his monumental Theatrum Gnomonis Terrarum, anticipating the discovery of continental drift and its role in the detection and prevention of crimes against geological constants.
1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1880: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
2010: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).