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||1604: The supernova now called "Kepler's nova" was first sighted in the constellation Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer. Johannes Kepler observed it from the time of its appearance as an apparently new star. It encouraged him to write ''The New Star'' in 1606. | ||1604: The supernova now called "Kepler's nova" was first sighted in the constellation Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer. Johannes Kepler observed it from the time of its appearance as an apparently new star. It encouraged him to write ''The New Star'' in 1606. | ||
||1621: Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier, playwright, and economist. No DOB. Pic search | ||1621: Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier, playwright, and economist. No DOB. Pic search. | ||
||1647: Christen Sørensen Longomontanus dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic. | ||1647: Christen Sørensen Longomontanus dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1932: Kenneth Ira Appel born ... mathematician who in 1976, with colleague Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, solved one of the most famous problems in mathematics, the four-color theorem. They proved that any two-dimensional map, with certain limitations, can be filled in with four colors without any adjacent "countries" sharing the same color. Pic search. | ||1932: Kenneth Ira Appel born ... mathematician who in 1976, with colleague Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, solved one of the most famous problems in mathematics, the four-color theorem. They proved that any two-dimensional map, with certain limitations, can be filled in with four colors without any adjacent "countries" sharing the same color. Pic search. | ||
||1940: Jacob Robert Emden dies ... astrophysicist and meteorologist ... mathematical model of the behavior of polytropic gaseous stellar objects under the influence their own gravity, known as the Lane-Emden equation. Pic search | ||1940: Jacob Robert Emden dies ... astrophysicist and meteorologist ... mathematical model of the behavior of polytropic gaseous stellar objects under the influence their own gravity, known as the Lane-Emden equation. Pic search. | ||
File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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||1967: New York Times publishes article "Two Men in Search of the Quark;" by Lee Edson on the work at Calif Inst of Tech by Professors Gell-Mann Feynman to find the "ultimate particle of matter" which they had labled a quark. | ||1967: New York Times publishes article "Two Men in Search of the Quark;" by Lee Edson on the work at Calif Inst of Tech by Professors Gell-Mann Feynman to find the "ultimate particle of matter" which they had labled a quark. | ||
||1973: Evan Tom Davies dies ... mathematician and linguist. He studied applications of the Lie derivative as it relates to Riemannian geometry as well as absolute differential calculus. Pic search | ||1973: Evan Tom Davies dies ... mathematician and linguist. He studied applications of the Lie derivative as it relates to Riemannian geometry as well as absolute differential calculus. Pic search. | ||
||1974: Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States. | ||1974: Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States. | ||
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1860: Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.
1924: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.
1925: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess stolen by math criminals.
1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter Joseph Wedderburn the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu.
1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.
2009: Physicist and crime-fighter Tullio Regge uses spin foam models to detect and prevent crimes against physics, warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."
2016: Butterfly voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.