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||1559: Robert Estienne dies ... printer and scholar. Pic. | ||1559: Robert Estienne dies ... printer and scholar. Pic. | ||
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||1722: Ernst Anton Nicolai born ... physician and chemist. He will be a follower of Leibniz' concept of monadism, seeking solutions to medical problems based on the philosophic viewpoints of Gottfried Leibniz. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ernst+Anton+Nicolai | ||1722: Ernst Anton Nicolai born ... physician and chemist. He will be a follower of Leibniz' concept of monadism, seeking solutions to medical problems based on the philosophic viewpoints of Gottfried Leibniz. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ernst+Anton+Nicolai | ||
||1776: According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist). | ||1776: According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS ''Eagle'' in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist). | ||
||1799: Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier dies ... botanist and physicist. No pic online. | ||1799: Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier dies ... botanist and physicist. No pic online. | ||
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||1954: Bud Fisher dies ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||1954: Bud Fisher dies ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||
||1956: Otto | ||1956: Otto Schmidt dies ... scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician, Hero of the USSR (27 June 1937), and member of the Communist Party. Pic. | ||
||1960: Sodium Reactor Experiment restarted after being offline for months due to clogged cooling channels. Pic. | ||1960: Sodium Reactor Experiment restarted after being offline for months due to clogged cooling channels. Pic. | ||
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||1977: Chemist Richard Helmuth Frederick Manske dies. First synthesized DMT. Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89667801/richard-helmuth_frederick-manske | ||1977: Chemist Richard Helmuth Frederick Manske dies. First synthesized DMT. Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89667801/richard-helmuth_frederick-manske | ||
||1978: While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella. | ||1978: While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella. Pic. | ||
||1983: Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin dies ... businessman and inventor of encryption machines. Pic. | ||1983: Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin dies ... businessman and inventor of encryption machines. Pic. | ||
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1914: Physicist and philosopher James Van Allen born. The Van Allen radiation belts will be named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.
1926: Steganographic analysis of The Safe-Cracker reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor Philo Farnsworth.
1928: Mathematician and crime-fighter Abraham Fraenkel publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on axiomatic set theory, which he uses to detect and counteract crimes against mathematical constants.
1930: Mathematician Kurt Godel announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem -- that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic -- in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle.
1939: Soviet Air Defense office Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov born. Petrov will became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.
1985: Mathematician George Pólya dies. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2004: The unmanned spacecraft Genesis receives a warning from AESOP, the alleged autonomous artificial intelligence living in the Earth's ionosphere, about "return capsule parachute failure". The Genesis capsule will crash-land in Utah on September 8, 2004, after a design flaw prevents the deployment of its drogue parachute.
2017: Signed first edition of Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus sells for two million dollars.
2018: Green Tangle 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.