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||1965: Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War. | ||1965: Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War. | ||
File: | File:One Veteran's Square - Media, Pennsylvania.jpg|link=Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI (nonfiction)|1971: Peace activists led break into the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, stealing over 1,000 classified documents. The activists mailed these documents anonymously to several US newspapers to expose numerous illegal FBI operations infringing on the First Amendment rights of American citizens. | ||
||1974: Olive Clio Hazlett dies ... mathematician who spent most of her career working for the University of Illinois. She mainly researched algebra, and wrote seventeen research papers on subjects such as nilpotent algebras, division algebras, modular invariants, and the arithmetic of algebras. WW2 Cryptanalyst. Pic: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/women-mathematicians/olive-c-hazlett-music-and-puzzles | ||1974: Olive Clio Hazlett dies ... mathematician who spent most of her career working for the University of Illinois. She mainly researched algebra, and wrote seventeen research papers on subjects such as nilpotent algebras, division algebras, modular invariants, and the arithmetic of algebras. WW2 Cryptanalyst. Pic: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/women-mathematicians/olive-c-hazlett-music-and-puzzles | ||
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1618: Mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1775: An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
1822: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist Ignacy Łukasiewicz born. He will build the world's first oil refinery and invent the kerosene lamp.
1840: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter Hans Christian Ørsted uses magnetic fields created by electric currents to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1879: Chemist and academic Otto Hahn born. He will pioneer the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.
1900: Physicist and computer scientist Howard H. Aiken born. He will design the Harvard Mark I computer.
1914: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich born. He will play a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, studying the effects of nuclear explosions.
1923: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals dies. He won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
1933: Biophysicist and crime-fighter Max Delbrück uses gamma rays' scattering by a Coulomb field's polarization of a vacuum to defeat the Forbidden Ratio in single combat.
1971: Peace activists led break into the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, stealing over 1,000 classified documents. The activists mailed these documents anonymously to several US newspapers to expose numerous illegal FBI operations infringing on the First Amendment rights of American citizens.
2019: Steganographic analysis of Green Tangle 2 unexpectedly reveals "at least seven hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.