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||1970: Sukarno dies ... engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia. | ||1970: Sukarno dies ... engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia. | ||
||1973: Botanist and evolutionary biologist Thorvald (Thorwald) Julius Sørensen born. He published the botanical research of the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Pic. | |||
||1973: In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law. | ||1973: In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law. | ||
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||1982: Hendrik Wade Bode dies ... engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist, of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research. Pic. | ||1982: Hendrik Wade Bode dies ... engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist, of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research. Pic. | ||
||1982: Joseph Friedman dies ... inventor, invented the bendy straw. | ||1982: Joseph Friedman dies ... inventor, invented the bendy straw. Pic. | ||
||1987: Madman Muntz dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company. | ||1987: Madman Muntz dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company. | ||
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1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
1947: Lorenz system diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.
1952: Crime-fighter The Governess chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.