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||1996: Louis W. Tordella dies ... the longest serving deputy director of the National Security Agency. Pic. | ||1996: Louis W. Tordella dies ... the longest serving deputy director of the National Security Agency. Pic. | ||
||1997: Alexander R. Todd dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1997: Alexander R. Todd dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2010: Henry Berge Helson dies ... mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis. Pic. | ||2010: Henry Berge Helson dies ... mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis. Pic. | ||
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1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.
1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born. Knuth will contribute to the development of rigorous, systematic analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms.
1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1960: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, announces world tour.