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||1971: During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
||1971: During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
||1979: Alfred Kneschke dies ... mathematician, engineer and university lecturer. During the World War II, Kneschke managed the Referat IV, Section II of the Wehrmacht Signals intelligence organization General der Nachrichtenaufklärung until November 1944, working on cryptanalysis and decoding of British, USA, French and Balkan cipher systems. From Nov 1944, he worked in the OKW/Chi cipher bureau as a cryptanalyst. Pic.


||2008: John Robert Stallings Jr. dies ... mathematician known for his seminal contributions to geometric group theory and 3-manifold topology. Pic.
||2008: John Robert Stallings Jr. dies ... mathematician known for his seminal contributions to geometric group theory and 3-manifold topology. Pic.

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