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||1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (d. 1999) Sidney Gottlieb (born Joseph Scheider; August 3, 1918 – March 7, 1999) was an American chemist and spymaster best known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and '60s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra. | ||1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (d. 1999) Sidney Gottlieb (born Joseph Scheider; August 3, 1918 – March 7, 1999) was an American chemist and spymaster best known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and '60s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra. | ||
||1929 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851) | ||1929 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851) Emile Berliner (d. August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for inventing the flat disc phonograph record (called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English) and the Gramophone. | ||
||1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics. | ||1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics. |
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1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
1916: Well-known illustration The Eel Time-Surfing 2 is exhibited in Paris for the first time.
1917: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
1943: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov uses Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Green Spiral 9 feels more green than ever, according to new chromatographic analysis.