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||1998: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
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File:Anita Borg.jpg|link=Anita Borg (nonfiction)|2003: Computer scientist [[Anita Borg (nonfiction)|Anita Borg]] dies.  She founded Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
File:Anita Borg.jpg|link=Anita Borg (nonfiction)|2003: Computer scientist [[Anita Borg (nonfiction)|Anita Borg]] dies.  Borg founded Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.


||2004: Alexander Yakovlevich Lerner dies ... scientist and Soviet refusenik. Cybernetics. Pic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87
||2004: Alexander Yakovlevich Lerner dies ... scientist and Soviet refusenik. Cybernetics. Pic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87

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  • 1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer dies. Dürer is regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist: his vast body of work will include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings.

    1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer dies. Dürer is regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist: his vast body of work will include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings.

  • 1749: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Thomas Bayes uses statistical methods to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1749: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Thomas Bayes uses statistical methods to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1793: During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.

    1793: During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.

  • 1829: Mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel dies. Abel made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.

    1829: Mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel dies. Abel made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.

  • 1889: Physicist and crime-fighter Petrus Leonardus Rijke invents the Rijke tube, which neutralizes crimes against audio constants by creating a self-quantumizing standing wave.

    1889: Physicist and crime-fighter Petrus Leonardus Rijke invents the Rijke tube, which neutralizes crimes against audio constants by creating a self-quantumizing standing wave.

  • 1926: American comic book artist Gil Kane born. Kane will pioneer graphic novels with his books His Name is...Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971).

    1926: American comic book artist Gil Kane born. Kane will pioneer graphic novels with his books His Name is...Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971).

  • 1992: Writer Isaac Asimov dies. Asimov is one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers of his generation.

    1992: Writer Isaac Asimov dies. Asimov is one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers of his generation.

  • 2003: Computer scientist Anita Borg dies. Borg founded Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.

    2003: Computer scientist Anita Borg dies. Borg founded Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.

  • 2016: Robot 7 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2016: Robot 7 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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