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||1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia. | ||1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia. | ||
||Orange Herald was a British nuclear weapon, tested on 31 May 1957. At the time it was reported as a H-bomb, although in fact it was a large boosted fission weapon. | |||
||1976 – Jacques Monod, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) | ||1976 – Jacques Monod, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) | ||
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1831: engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.
1835: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker uses Gnomon algorithm to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.